Murphy, Austria’s OMV seal Namibia offshore deal

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Cape Town—US independent Murphy Oil and Austria’s OMV have sealed a deal to take interests in two exploration blocks in Namibia’s offshore waters. The companies are taking stakes in blocks 2613A and 2613B in the Luderitz Basin off Namibia’s south coast from Brazil’s Cowan Oil & Gas, OMV said Thursday. Murphy will acquire a 40% interest in each block and assume operatorship while OMV will take 25%, leaving Cowan with 20% and Namibia’s state-owned Namcor with 15%.