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Danny Fortson: November 20 2016, 12:01am

A small, private oil company is nearing a deal to buy nearly $2bn (£1.6bn) worth of Shell’s North Sea oil fields.

Chrysaor was one of several suitors to have lodged bids for the assets that the FTSE 100 giant put on the block after its blockbuster takeover of rival BG.

It is understood that the company, which is run by former Amerada Hess executive Phil Kirk and chaired by Francis Gugen, founder of beleaguered shale gas developer iGas, is closing in on a deal. Chrysaor is likely to buy most, but perhaps not all of the North Sea fields Shell is hoping to unload, according to industry sources.

Shell has pledged to offload $30bn worth of assets to slash the debt it took on to…

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