Lebanon has selected 46 international oil companies to bid to explore for gas in its Mediterranean waters, Energy Minister Gebran Bassil said.
Bassil said 12 of the companies had been selected to bid as operators and the other 34 could bid as non-operators in the licensing round, which opens on May 2.
The dozen companies which have pre-qualified to bid as operators are:
Anadarko Petroleum Corp
Chevron Corp
ENI
ExxonMobil
INPEX
Maersk
Petrobras
Petronas
Repsol
Shell
Statoil
Total
Reuters
April 18
