AZERBAIJAN TO LAUNCH NEW INTERNATIONAL OIL PROJECT.

A consortium of the U.S. companies AMOCO and UNOCAL seeks a 40 percent stake for each in Azerbaijan’s untapped Dan-Ulduzu and Ashrafi offshore oilfields, AMOCO-Eurasia president Don Stacy announced in Baku following talks with President Haydar Aliev. Estimated reserves of the two fields are at least 100 to 120 million tons of oil. (Petroleum Information Agency, September 13)

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