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Pertamina claims offer for West Qurna stake

Indonesia's economy minister, in Baghdad to sign energy cooperation agreement, says state firm wants up to 20 percent of the super-giant Basra field being developed by ExxonMobil.
Mohammed Hatta Rajasa (left), Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani, meeting March 14, 2013, when the two countries signed an energy and economics memorandum of understanding. (source: the office of the deputy prime minister)

BAGHDAD - Indonesia has signed an Iraqi crude supply deal and said it is in talks to purchase up to 20 percent of the ExxonMobil-operated West Qurna 1 oil field.

Led by Mohammed Hatta Rajasa, the country's Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, a delegation of more than a dozen, including officials from state company Pertamina, also signed energy and economic cooperation agreements in Baghdad on Thursday.

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