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 | | Sinopec, the Chinese oil giant, and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) signed an agreement to explore oil in Zavareh, Kashan, 205 kilometers south of Tehran. |
 | | In 1995, Conoco Inc., the fourth-largest U.S. oil company, had to annul a $550 million contract to develop two oil and gas fields offshore Iran because of a U.S. government order. |
 | | Rival China National Petroleum Co., parent of PetroChina Co., has signed more than 20 contracts since 1997 with companies and governments in Peru, Sudan, Iraq, Venezuela and Kazakhstan to drill for an estimated 400 million tons of oil and gas reserves. |
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