Nombres de las companías compitiendo en la primera ronda de las subastas

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Firms competing in Iraq's first bid round

1 hour 36 mins ago


(Reuters) - Thirty-two of the world's biggest energy companies have qualified and paid to compete in Iraq's first bidding round for oil and gas contracts since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Iraq plans to award eight 20-year service contracts on June 29-30 to boost output at the six oilfields on offer and to develop two gas fields.

The following is the official list of 32 companies competing:

BHP Billiton

BP

Chevron

CNOOC

CNPC

ConocoPhillips

Edison International

ENI

Exxon Mobil

Hess

Inpex

Japex

Gazprom

Kogas

Lukoil

Maersk

Marathon

Mitsubishi

Nexen

Nippon Oil

Occidental

ONGC

Petronas

Pertamina

Repsol

Royal Dutch Shell

Sinochem

Sinopec

StatoilHydro

Total

Turkish Petroleum

Woodside

(Compiled by Simon Webb; Editing by Keiron Henderson)

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Fields eyed by oil firms in Iraq

1 hour 57 mins ago

(Reuters) - The following lists the Iraqi oil and gas fields in which international oil companies have shown interest and may bid for next week, according to company and industry sources.

Iraq has declared 32 international oil and gas firms as qualified to bid for the contracts on fields that account for more than a third of Iraq's total 115 billion barrels of reserves, the world's third largest.

Some of the oil companies plan to bid together.

Royal Dutch Shell has talked to Chinese firms on partnerships. China's CNPC has said it was talking to U.S. firms. France's Total has teamed up with U.S. firm Chevron. Russia's LUKOIL plans to bid with U.S. ConocoPhillips.

Other alliances were likely to emerge at the auction, oil executives said.


FIELDS

Bai Hassan - StatoilHydro, ConocoPhillips

Kirkuk - Shell, Exxon

Maysan - Shell and BHP Billiton

Rumaila - Lukoil* and ConocoPhillips, BP, ONGC, Exxon

West Qurna - Total and Chevron, ONGC

Zubair - Exxon Mobil, ONGC

GAS FIELDS

Akkas - Edison*, Kogas, Total, Shell with Turkish Petroleum Corp

Mansuriyah - Edison*, Kogas

* Information from company or company sources. Others from industry sources.

- Maysan comprises three fields --Bazargan, Abu Gharab and Fakka in southern Maysan province)

(Compiled by Simon Webb; Editing by William Hardy)