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.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”