The auction for one of Brazil’s biggest oil discoveries attracted little interest from western companies, with the list of bidders led instead by Chinese companies and other Asian state-owned oil groups.
Many investor-owned companies such as Exxon, BG Group, BP and Chevron did not register to bid for Libra, considered the crown jewel of Brazil’s deepwater oilfields with forecast production of up to 1m barrels of oil equivalent a day. That is equivalent to about half of Brazil’s present production.
The auction drew only a quarter of bidders expected by the government, as concerns rise over onerous state controls in the industry.
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