Iran: China’s state-owned energy CNPC takes over French Total
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s official IRNA news agency is reporting that China’s state-owned petroleum corporation has taken a majority share of the country’s South Pars gas project after French oil and gas company Total announced it would pull out because renewed U.S. economic sanctions against Iran.
The Saturday report quotes Mohammad Mostafavi, an official in Iran’s state oil company, as saying CNPC now owns 80 percent of the shares in the $5 billion project, having bought shares from Total.
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CNPC originally had some 30 percent of shares in the project.
The renewal of U.S. sanctions took effect on Tuesday. /cbb
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