§ Sir Trevor SkeetTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the present participants in oil and gas exploration licences recently granted to British Petroleum and others in the Caspian sea area.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggJKX are understood to hold an exploration licence for a block in the Caspian Sea offshore Daghestan. Amoco, BP/Statoil, Delta, Lukoil, McDermott, Nimir, Pennzoil, Ramco, TPAO and UNOCAL are signatories to a production sharing contract offshore Azerbaijan. AGIP, BP/Statoil, British Gas, Mobil, Shell, Statoil and Total are signatories to an exploration contract offshore Kazakhstan.