Ineos AG push further for ConocoPhillips’s upstream assets to become a top UK producer, says GlobalData
Published by David Bizley,
Editor
Oilfield Technology,
Following the announcement that Ineos AG are in exclusive talks with ConocoPhillips to acquire its remaining UK upstream assets. Daniel Rogers, Upstream Oil & Gas Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, estimates the deal could be worth approximately US$ 2.4 billion and offers his insight on the transaction.
“The acquisition in question would boost Ineos AG’s 2019 production from approximately 32 000 boe/d to over 95 000 boe/d and increase Ineos AG’s remaining UK reserves to 420 million boe, making Ineos AG the 5th largest producer in the UK, just behind Chrysaor Holdings that acquired a group of Royal Dutch Shell’s UK assets in 2017.
“The sale of its UK assets would mean a total company production loss of 6% or over 75 000 boe/d for ConocoPhillips. The deal will provide Ineos AG with oil producing assets to shift it’s heavily gas weighted portfolio – currently 20% oil – to a 30% oil weightage.
“ConocoPhillips’s divestment does not come as a surprise as speculation of the sale of its UK assets has been present for a number of years. Along with Chevron Corporation and Marathon Oil are a number of US companies looking to divest from the UK upstream sector, likely in an attempt free up capital for competing operations globally.
“An acquisition of ConocoPhillips’s full UK upstream portfolio includes stakes in 30 currently producing fields, 26 of them being gas fields and four oil-producing fields. The majority of the deal value is from ConocoPhillips remaining share in the Clair field and two other producing fields, Britannia and Brodgar.
“The deal may also include eight discovered fields that are awaiting development. ConocoPhillips’s UK assets (post Clair field farm down to 7.5%) are estimated to increase the Net Present Value of Ineos’s upstream portfolio by around US$2.4 billion, giving a Net Present Value of roughly US$4 billion of both combined assets.
“GlobalData has recorded five completed UK asset transactions by Ineos AG since 2015, but this acquisition would be by far the largest made by the company in the region. As decommissioning liabilities loom and large international projects having to compete for capital, ConocoPhillips’ management are likely seeing the recent uptick in oil price as a good time to be shifting non-core assets globally.”
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