VIENNA: OMV has signed a four-year program to evaluate offshore oil and gas fields northwest of Abu Dhabi with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Occidental Petroleum, the Austrian company said.

The fields the companies will analyze through seismic, drilling and engineering studies include the Ghasha and Hail areas with a view to appraising and developing them.

OMV is already working with ADNOC on the appraisal of the Shuwaihat field.

OMV under new CEO Rainer Seele is increasingly looking toward Russia and the UAE, the home of its second-biggest shareholder IPIC, for future output.