Five western oil companies are vying to help Gazprom exploit its massive Shtokman field in the Barents Sea.

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Brazil has discovered a spectacular oil field off its coast, but it will be hard and expensive to exploit.

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Lukoil won a contract to exploit the West Qurnah field, thought to hold 15 billion barrels oil, in the mid-1990s.

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