CNPC, the Chinese energy company, is poised to win the first oilfield to be tendered in Afghanistan since the US ousted the Taliban in revenge for sheltering Osama bin Laden a decade ago.
China’s push into Afghanistan is part of a drive to secure resources to fuel economic growth that has seen its state-owned companies venture into increasingly risky countries.
CNPC, China’s biggest oil and gas producer, beat rival bids from Australia’s Buccaneer Energy, London-based Tethys Petroleum and Shazhad International of Pakistan in a tender for three blocks in the Amu Darya basin in the relatively peaceful north-west.
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