加拿大石油行业并购大事记 (Alberta Oil)
The world’s largest energy company, ExxonMobil Corp., spent $3.1 billion to buy Celtic
Exploration Ltd. in late 2013, giving Exxon large land holdings in the Duvernay and Montney
shale plays. The deal marked the largest Exxon acquisition since the company’s June 2010
purchase of XTO Energy.
After years of persistently low natural gas prices, Oklahoma-based Devon Energy Corp. said it
would divest itself of its Canadian conventional assets. CNRL happily purchased Devon’s
conventional oil and natural gas assets on February 19, 2014, for $3.25 billion. The deal added
86,000 barrels of oil equivalent to CNRL’s daily production.
At a time when Henry Hub natural gas futures prices hung around $7 per million British thermal
units, TransCanada Corp. spent $3.4 billion acquiring natural gas pipeline and storage assets in
the U.S. The company paid El Paso Corp. $3.4 billion for ANR Pipeline Co., ANR Storage Co.
and an additional 3.55 per cent stake in the Great Lakes Gas Transmission LP. The deal
increased TransCanada’s natural gas storage capacity 230 billion cubic feet to 360 bcf.
In a conference call announcing its third-quarter earnings for 2006, CNRL president Steve Laut
said the company would be focused on driving down costs, especially costs charged by oilfield
services companies, over the next year. Weeks earlier, CNRL spent $4.08 billion to purchase
Anadarko Petroleum’s Canadian assets, which included production of 69,000 barrels of oil
equivalent per day.
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