India's state-owned ONGC Videsh has become the latest Asian company to strike a deal in the resource-rich East African region.
ONGC Videsh, the subsidiary that handles the offshore operations for Oil Natural Gas Corp ONGC on Monday agreed to buy a 10% stake in a Mozambique gas field from New York-listed Anadarko Petroleum Corp for a cash price of $2.64 billion.
Asian companies have been competing to secure equity stakes in liquified natural gas LNG fields and, according to a person close to the situation, much of this will be sold into Asia, to offer a cheaper alternative to Australia's LNG. As a...