by Roshanak Taghavi Dow Jones Newswires Thursday, October 09, 2008 TEHRAN (Dow Jones Newswires), October 9, 2008 China National Petroleum Corp. is in talks with Iran to take a 25% stake in a major liquified natural gas project in the Islamic republic at the expense of France's Total S.A., a senior Iranian energy official said. Under the plan, CNPC would take a 25% stake in the Pars LNG project, while Total may see its share reduced to 25% from 40%, Nasratollah Seifi, a member of the board of directors at the National Iranian Gas Export Co., or NIGEC, told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview Wednesday. "At this moment, Total...
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