Dragon Oil get Caspian licence

Dragon Oil has received a 25-year licence to explore, drill and develop oil deposits off the Turkmenistan Caspian Sea coast

Dragon Oil has received a 25-year licence to explore, drill and develop oil deposits off the Turkmenistan Caspian Sea coast. It signed a production agreement with the Turkmenistan government last November covering the two fields, Lam and Zhdanov, which have estimated recoverable reserves of 80 million tonnes.

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