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Sonangol, Maersk Oil and partners strike oil with their first deepwater pre-salt well offshore Angola

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The result may be a further step towards our goal of building up a significant business in Angola. In November 2006, it acquired a 50% interest and operatorship of Blocks 8 and 23 with Svenska Petroleum Exploration (30%) and Sonangol (20%). —Lars Nydahl Jorgensen, Head of Exploration at Maersk Oil.

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