MOSCOW, April 15 (UPI) -- Russian oil company Lukoil said Tuesday it sold its 50 percent stake in Kazakh projects to China Petroleum & Chemical Corp for $1.2 billion.
Lukoil said Tuesday it signed a purchase and sale agreement with the Chinese company, known also as Sinopec. The Russian company said its share of commercial hydrocarbon production in Kazakhstan was 10.2 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2013.