A consortium including Dragon Oil (LON:DGO) has been chosen as the winning bidder for two blocks, Sanduqli and Mzar-i-Sharif, in Afghanistan’s Afghan-Tajik Phase 1 oil & gas tender.
The consortium comprises Dragon Oil, Kuwait Energy and Turkiye Petrolleri (TPAO) and the Ghazanfar group, a firm run by a local Afghan family.
The consortium has been invited to enter into negotiations with the Afghanistan Ministry of Mines for the exploration, development and production activities in the two blocks.
The Ministry of Mines of Afghanistan received the consortium's bid in November 2012.
The Afghan-Tajik basin is located in the northern section of Afghanistan between the cities of Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz.