Exclusive: Venezuela rejected BP bid to buy Total's stake in gas block - sources
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CARACAS/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Venezuela's oil ministry last month turned down a proposal by BP to buy Total's stake in a promising but inactive natural gas project along the maritime border with Trinidad and Tobago, five people briefed on the matter said.BP owns the rights to the Trinidadian side of the gas play. It could have used the output from the neighboring area, the Deltana Platform's fourth block off Venezuela's eastern coast, to feed its growing operations on the island, said the..