Agreed—finding a buyer for the Lukoil shares will not be easy unless COP is willing to accept a firesale price. But, as noted in my reply to exwannabe, the arbitrary GAAP threshold of 20% gives COP a reason to delay any paring of the Lukoil stake for a few years.
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