Article: OMAN - New E&P Offerings.

There are now about ten blocks on offer for E&P. The Ministry of Oil and Gas expects to award E&P licences in the first half of 2002. In March 2001, Maersk Oil & Gas of Denmark got two blocks near the Saudi border. In Oct. Novus of Australia got Blocks 15 and 47 in northern Oman. In mid-Nov. Hunt Oil of the US, a major operator in Yemen, got the 22,245 sq km Block 50 off the east coast under a four-year agreement during which it will invest $18-26m.

In June 1999 Phillips Petroleum of the US got Block 38 in the south-west, 18,000 sq km, under a 10-year PSA, and was to spend $29m in the first three years and to begin drilling in 2000. It will have 40% of any ...

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