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As Iraq Stabilizes, China Bids on Its Oil Fields

By KEITH BRADSHER
www.nytimes.com
Posted on Wednesday July 1, 2009

Oil companies from China, the world’s second-largest and fastest-growing consumer of oil, bid aggressively on Tuesday as Iraq began auctioning licenses in six large oil fields.

A partnership of BP and the China National Petroleum Corporation, or C.N.P.C., won the first contract awarded, in the latest indication of Chinese interest in Iraq, a country that has until recently seemed to be firmly in the American sphere of influence for natural resources.

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