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Iraq strikes deal with Lukoil over massive oil field
AFP, Haghdad
Iraq struck a deal with Russian energy giant Lukoil on Saturday to develop one of the world's biggest untapped oil fields as part of efforts by Baghdad to dramatically ramp up its crude output.
The agreement over the West Qurna-2 reservoir with Lukoil, which will share the project with Norway's StatoilHydro, comes a day after consortiums led by Shell and CNPC were awarded contracts.
* The seven deals reached in the two-day auction promise to increase Iraq's oil production by more than 4.7 million barrels per day (bpd) in die coming years as the country seeks to become one of the world's biggest energy producers and bring in much-needed revenue to rebuild its war-battered economy.
"We can announce that Lukoil has won the contract to develop the West Qurna-2 oilfield," Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said at the conference hall where the auction was held.
Lukoil and StatoilHydro requested 1.15 dollars for each barrel extracted from the giant field and projected output of 1.8 million bpd. Lukoil will take 85 percent and StatoilHydro 15 percent.
West Qurna-2, with known reserves of 12.9 billion barrels, lies west of the equally enormous Majnoon field, which was auctioned on Friday to Anglo-Dutch firm Shell and Malaysia's Petronas.
Obama slams 'fat cat bankers’
AFP, Washington
US President Barack Obama has hit out at Wall Street 'fat cats," expressing anger that banks bailed out by the government again plan huge bonuses as millions of Americans battle poverty and unemployment.
"I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street," Obama said Friday in excerpts of an interview with CBS television to be aired on Sunday.
With unemployment still hovering at around 10 percent. amid a recession triggered in part by the excesses of financial institutions, Obama voiced frustration that "some people on Wall Street still don't get it."
Lavish pay and bonuses on Wall Street have been blamed for encouraging the excessive risk taking that with the sub-prime mortgage housing crisis fueled the global maelstrom and brought the US financial sector to the brink of collapse a year ago.
That prompted the US administration unveiled a rescue package topping 700 billion dollars, in part to shore up troubled institutions.
Troubled Airbus transporter takes to the skies
AFP, Seville. Spain
The troubled Airbus A400M military transporter, which has overshot its development budget by billions of dollars, carried out its first test flight in Spain on Friday.
After nearly four hours in the sky, the hulking grey plane and its six-man crew landed at an airport near the southwestern city of Seville to applause from hundreds of officials, including Spain's King Juan Carlos.
The A400M was first agreed in 2003 by NATO members Germany, Spain, France, Britain, Turkey, Belgium and Luxembourg with a contract worth 20 billion euros (28 billion dollars).
But deliveries are at least three years behind schedule due to a series of serious technical problems, in particular delays in building its massive turbo-prop engines, and media reports say Airbus needs another five billion euros to finish the project.
Sri Lanka wants more players in oil exploration race
AFP, Colombo
Sri Lanka plans to offer three more blocks off the island's northwestern shores for oil exploration, the government said on Saturday.
"We need more players in the oil exploration race and the government plans to call for tenders for three more blocks off the Gulf of Mannar early next year," Petroleum Resources Minister A.H.M. Fowzie told AFP
Cairn India, a unit of Britain's Cairn Energy Plc, began a 100 million-dollar seismic survey off Sri Lanka’s northwestern coast earlier in the week to explore for crude oil.
Cairn said it hopes to complete the survey by March and start drilling in the first half of 2011.
Fowzie said previous seismic data had showed the potential for the discovery of more than one billion barrels of oil in the Mannar Basin but there have been no finds yet.