Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Imperial Energy has choosen OVL over Sinopec
UK-listed Imperial Energy today said it has chosen ONGC Videsh Ltd over Chinese competitor Sinopec to discuss a possible sale to the Indian company and an announcement is likely shortly. OVL, through its wholly owned subsidiary Jarpeno Ltd, has made a 12.50 pounds per share takeover offer.
OVL, the overseas investment arm of state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), had made a takeover offer last month and earlier this month China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec) made a counter offer.Imperial, a relatively small British oil and gas company based in Leeds in UK, has oil producing blocks in Tomsk region of western Siberia in Russia and Kastanai in north-central Kazakhstan.It produced about 10,000 barrels of oil per day in December 2007 and is targeting to raise this amount to 80,000 barrels per day (4 million tons a year) by year-end 2011.
Read more in The Economic Times article.
Labels:
Imperial Energy,
Oil and Gas,
Oil Exploration,
OVL,
Sinopec,
Takeover
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