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Cyprus Ends Gas Block Talks With French-Russian Consortium
 
The Cypriot government has terminated talks with the French-Russian consortium, which was in negotiations to develop Block 9 following the island’s second bid round. Cyprus had kicked off the formal talks in mid-November for production sharing agreements after shortlisting developers for four blocks on 30 October (MEES, 2 November).
 
The negotiations for Block 9, which was the...