Afghanistan to offer six oil, gas blocks by end-2012

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Dubai—Afghanistan is offering six more oiland gas exploration blocks in an auction to beheld in late 2012, the country’s minister ofmines said March 7, following the award lastyear of a license to China’s CNPC to exploreat three blocks in the Amu Darya Basin.“We are excited at the international inter-est this tender is generating,” WahidullahShaharani said in a statement.The ministry said the area in northernAfghanistan, encompassing the western por-tion of the Afghan-Tajik Basin, would be openfor exploration in early 2013. More than 60hydrocarbon prospects have been identified inthe area, it added.