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Gold/Mining/Energy : Lundin Oil (LOILY, LOILB Sweden) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greywolf who wrote (2011)	2/3/2001 10:49:56 PM
From: Tomas	Respond to of 2742

Bush may allow Iran-Libya sanctions to expire Oil & Gas Investor (Denver), January 2001 By Nissa Darbonne Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown analysts believe President Bush might allow the expiration of the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act, which has prohibited U.S. companies from doing business with these OPEC members for most of the past 20 years. The act expires in August. The law also calls for penalties against non-U.S. firms that do business with these countries, if they also do business in the U.S. Whether the rules are continued by executive order will affect U.S.-based Amerada Hess Corp.'s acquisition of U.K.-based Lasmo Plc. The latter has interests in both Iran and Libya. Amerada will have to dispose of the Middle Eastern and North African assets, if it cannot get around the law. The most convenient situation would be U.S. discontinuance of the rules. Libya's current capacity is 1.55 million barrels per day and the DBAB analysts don't see that increasing significantly during the next five years. The state-owned Agoco, Waha, Sirte and Zueitina firms produce about two-thirds of current output. Italy's Eni and Spain's Repsol-YPF produce most of the rest. "Realizing that Libya needs foreign investment, the regime has tried to change the country's terrorist image," the analysts report. Additional volumes are expected from Lasmo's Elephant field (140,000 barrels per day) and Repsol-YPF's El Sharara (180,000). "Although these additions are high, it will be a struggle to offset declines at mature fields. Further volumes will depend on the improvement of upstream terms, as well as an end to U.S. and U.N. sanctions," the analysts add.