Afghanistan, Saudi group sign oil, gas deal for Kushk-Tirpul basin exploration
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KABUL: Afghanistan has signed a contract with Saudi oil and gas company Delta International Energy to explore and extract hydrocarbons across a 22,000 sq. km basin in the country’s west. The $200 million deal was signed in Kabul on Monday by Mines and Petroleum Minister Hedayatullah Badri and Delta CEO Shaher Al-Taqi in the presence of Afghanistan’s top Taliban leadership and Zalmay Khalilzad, for
