Posted on 07/03/2012 8:00:15 AM PDT by thackney
Exxon Mobil Corp. told Afghanistan's Ministry of Mines it is interested in bidding on the right to explore for oil and gas in the country.
A spokesman for the Irving, Texas-based energy giant said Monday a unit of the company, Esso Exploration International Ltd., filed an "expression of interest" in the Afghan-Tajik Basin over the weekend.
XOM better go heavily armed. Yikes.
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