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Yemen Prequalifies 18 Oil Block Bids Against Backdrop Of Instability
 
Yemen this week prequalified a list of 18 international companies to bid for 20 oil and gas exploration licenses offered up by the Ministry of Oil and Minerals as part of a licensing round launched earlier this year, state news agency SABA reported. 
 
This comes amid a new wave of militant-fueled instability in the poverty-stricken Arab state, which has seen the US step up its...