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The $5 billion deal futher increases China’s rising clout in Central Asia, once Russia’s imperial backyard, and blocks an attempt by global rival India to get a stake in the oilfield, the world’s largest oil discovery in five decades.
Kazakhstan will sell 8.33 per cent of the offshore oilfield to China for about $5 billion in a deal to be signed during Xi’s visit to the capital Astana later on Saturday, Kazakh government sources told Reuters.
The sale and purchase agreement will be signed by the heads of Kazakh national oil and gas company KazMunaiGas and China National Petroleum Corp, or CNPC, said the officials, who requested anonymity.
“We suppose that the transaction will be closed by late September or late October,” one of the officials said.
One of the clauses of the agreement stipulates that China will help arrange a loan of up to $3 billion for KazMunaiGas to help it finance the second stage of Kashagan’s development, due to begin after 2020, he said.
This week, Xi visited Kazakhstan’s neighbour Turkmenistan, which holds the world’s fourth-largest natural gas reserves, and oversaw deals aiming to boost gas supplies and build a pipeline to China.
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