Exxon Holds Leases Across More Than 25% of Populous German State

摘要

Exxon Mobil has gained exploration rights across more than one-quarter of the territory of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state and its industrial heartland. The US supermajor had disclosed last year that it had acquired nearly two million acres of leases (about 8,000 square kilometers) with unconventional gas potential in the neighboring states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, but additional details have now emerged.