Italian energy company Eni and Russian oil company Lukoil have submitted bids for Marine 24 and Marine 31 offshore units in the Republic of Congo. In this respect Wrote The TASS agency cites a message from Ivan Romanovsky, Lukoil’s Vice President for Americas, Africa and the Middle East.
“These applications were made in partnership with Eni and accepted by the government. Lukoil’s share in the consortium could be 43 percent,” he said.
According to Romanovsky, organizations are currently discussing the final commercial terms for the development of the blocks.
The previous day, Russian Ambassador to the Republic of Congo Georgy Chepik saidThe republic and Russia will sign an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of a pipeline for the transportation of oil products in an African country with the participation of a Russian company.
Press service of the Italian energy company Eni in the second half of December reported about the company’s plans to build a second floating plant with a capacity of 2.4 million tons per year for the production of liquefied natural gas in the Republic of the Congo.