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Shell agrees to sell natural gas to PetroChina

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-11-24 23:35

BEIJING - Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe's biggest oil company, had agreed to sell an annual two million tonnes of liquefied natural gas to China in a 20-year agreement, Shell (China) Limited said on Monday.

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The agreement was signed between the European oil giant and PetroChina International Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina), China's largest oil and gas producer.

The Chinese company has not verified the news yet.

Part of the national gas supplies to PetroChina would be tapped from the Gorgon gas project in Australia, the European company said. Shell has a 25 percent stake in the Gorgon project that is still in initial stages of development.