Total Pulls Out of Oman Offshore Exploration Block
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. (Reporting by Fatma Alarimi; writing by Andrew Torchia; editing by Jason Neely
Bahrain Energy Projects not Affected by Oil Slide
work start in the second half of 2015, he added. The minister had said in a speech earlier on Sunday that the new pipeline would have a capacity of around 350,000 barrels of oil per day, compared to 220,000 bpd through the current pipeline. (Reporting by David French, Reuters; Editing by Andrew Torchia)