* Japan's JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp says it has agreed to sell its entire 5 percent stake in
Syncrude oil sand project in Province of Alberta, Canada, to a subsidiary of
Suncor Energy
* Crude oil production of this project in 2017 was 248,000 barrels per day, it said
(Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori; Editing by Sunil Nair)