OSLO, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Norway’s Statoil has sold a 15.5 percent stake in the Azeri gas project Shah Deniz to Malaysia’s Petronas for $2.25 billion, the latest asset the firm is selling to protect its cash flow and returns to shareholders. The deal also includes Statoil’s stake in the pipeline carrying gas to markets and two related companies. Its second-quarter production from the Shah Deniz field was 38,000 barrels oil equivalent per day, it said. (Reporting by Gwladys Fouche, editing by Terje Solsvik)
Statoil has sold a stake in the Azeri gas project Shah Deniz to Malaysia’s Petronas for 2.25 billion pounds.
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