据路透社4月13日马斯喀特报道,阿曼政府的一名高级官员13日在马斯喀特接受路透社记者采访时表示,在未能获得在商业上具有吸引力的发现以后,法国油气巨头道达尔公司日前退出了位于阿曼海上的一个深水勘探区块。
阿曼石油和天然气部副部长纳赛尔·奥菲没有提供有关道达尔公司决定的细节。
2013年2月,道达尔公司签署了阿曼第41号区块的勘探和产量分成协议。第41号区块位于阿曼首都马斯喀特西北海岸以外海域,面积2.4万平方公里,水深3000米。
奥菲说,去年匈牙利油气集团MOL退出了阿曼第34号区块以及挪威DNO石油公司退出了第31号区块。
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原文如下:
Total pulls out of Oman exploration block
MUSCAT
April 13,2015
French oil and gas giant Total has pulled out of a deepwater block in offshore Oman after failing to make commercially attractive discoveries, a senior Omani official told reporters on Monday.
Nasser Al Aufi, undersecretary at the Ministry of Oil and Gas, did not provide details regarding Total's decision.
The company signed an exploration and production-sharing agreement in December 2013 for Block 41, which lies off the Omani coast northwest of Muscat and covers almost 24,000 square kilometres of seabed with depths of up to 3,000 metres.
Aufi also said that last year Hungarian oil group MOL had pulled out from Block 34, and Norwegian oil firm DNO from Block 31.