Media: Minister to help Maersk in Qatar
Denmark's Minister of Foreign Affairs will, according to business daily Børsen, be doing what he can to help Maersk Oil maintain the rights to operate the company's most profitable field, Al Shaheen, when he visits Qatar early next year.
BY JOHANNES HARTKOPF-MIKKELSEN
Shortly after New Year, Denmark's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kristian Jensen (V- Liberal Party) will fly to Qatar, where Maersk Oil currently extracts around 40 percent of the company's combined oil output. This concession will expire in 2017, and Maersk is now competing with other oil majors such as Total and ExxonMobil for the new contract.
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