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To Be or Not To Be: Bakken Assets Could Fetch $5 Billion for Exxon Mobil
04/05/2022
Exxon Mobil Corp. is weighing prospects of selling its assets in North Dakota’s Bakken, after gauging interest from potential buyers — 5 billion is the issue price, at least according to rumors. The price point came about after the news that the oil giant is in the final round of hiring bankers to help launch the sale.
An Exxon Mobil spokesperson declined to comment regarding the situation.
It's important to note, that Exxon, one of the top U.S. oil companies, has been trying to raise $15 billion through asset sales as a part of its three years-long plan, which includes not only several U.S. assets but international ones as well.
In a move to pay down debt taken on during the pandemic and double earnings by 2027, Exxon Mobil expects to cut annual costs by $9 billion by 2023, a $3 billion increase over previous targets.
The oil giant has been cutting costs heavily since suffering a historic loss in 2020. A sweeping restructuring of the company's global operations was announced in January. After which Exxon marketed 61 wells that produced approximately 81 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day (MMcfd) from shale gas properties spread across 27,000 acres in Ohio’s Appalachian Basin. Based on current natural gas prices and existing production from the well, this sale alone could value the assets at around $200 million.
To boost profitability, Exxon Mobil further confirmed at the beginning of March that it would continue to reduce expenses and its oil and gas production portfolio. And backing up its statements with actions, Exxon’s Russian projects were one of the first to be axed following the geopolitical crisis of the invasion of Ukraine by Putin's regime, which caused oil prices to rise to their highest level in eight years.
And while the news of possible Bakken's assets sale has yet to be confirmed, it started spreading like wildfire against a backdrop of rising shares. An afternoon trade right after they broke showed that Exxon Mobil bonds had gained as much as 2.31% at $84.71.
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As Countries Shun Russian Crude, Canada Plans to Boost Its Oil Exports
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Canada is looking at ways to increase pipeline utilization to boost crude exports as Europe seeks to reduce its reliance on Russian oil At the moment, oil exports from Canada to the U.S. are approximately 4 million barrels of oil per day, with a portion reexported to other countries. At the end of 2021 Canadian oil companies exported a record amount of crude from the U.S. Gulf Coast, mostly to big importers India, China, and South Korea. And this will only increase in the future.
$690 Million Deal Moves Ahead: Crescent Energy to Complete Purchase of EP Energy's Uinta Assets
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Crescent Energy closed the acquisition of Uinta Basin assets in Utah that were previously owned by EP Energy for $690 million, a few hundred million dollars below the original price. The accretive deal increases Crescent's Rockies position and adds significant cash flow and a portfolio of high-quality oil-weighted undeveloped sites. In addition to its acquired Uinta assets, Crescent's pro forma year-end 2021 provided reserves totaled 598 million boe, of which 83% was developed, 55% was liquid, and its provided PV-10 was $6.2 billion.
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Shareholder’s payout target was increased by 50% after the largest U.S. independent oil producer surpassed Wall Street’s earnings estimates on growing energy prices, said Houston-based Conoco Phillips Co. on Aug. 4. Due to Western sanctions on major producer Russia throttling energy supply amid a rebound in demand from pandemic lows, oil and gas #prices have soared. Crude has been trading more than 25% higher since the start of the year and results also benefited from high natural gas prices. Meanwhile, shares were down a fraction, to $91.03, in early trading but are up about 26% year to date. Conoco Phillips stated, that the average price obtained for a barrel of oil and gas accelerated 77% from a year earlier to $88.57. The company acknowledges that it has not hedged any of its oil and gas sales to make the most of higher market prices. The capacity of 1.69 million boe/d was in line with Wall Street estimates, however, the company expected the current quarter’s output would be between 1.71 million and 1.76 million boe/d.
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California oil joint venture, Aera Energy, of Exxon Mobil Corp. and ShellPlc is being sold to German asset manager IKAV, according to the agreement of Sept. 1. Shell noted that the sale of its 51.8% membership interest in Aera Energy is for a total consideration of about $2 billion in cash with additional contingent payments based on future oil prices, subject to regulatory approval. However, the total transaction value was not disclosed. Being one of California’s largest oil and gas producers, Aera Energy accounts for nearly 25% of the state’s production. The sale by Exxon Mobil and Shell ends a 25-year-long partnership in California, meanwhile, it persists a streak of divestments of mature oil and gas properties by the two supermajors. Aera Energy LLC operates about 13,000 wells in the San Joaquin Valley in California, producing oil and associated gas. In 2021, Aera took out about 95,000 boe/d. Exxon Mobil’s interests in the Aera oil-production operation in California contained a 48.2% share of Aera Energy LLC and a 50% share of Aera Energy Services Co. held by Mobil California Exploration & Producing Co. Moreover, Exxon Mobil affiliates have signed a separate agreement for the sale of an associated loading facility and pipeline system. The sale effectively ends Shell’s upstream position in California. The company reported that the divestiture is valued to result in a post-tax impairment of $300 million to $400 million, subject to adjustments.
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The completion of the merger between Centennial Resource Development Inc. and Colgate Energy Partners II LLC happened on Sept. 1, sealing the debut of Permian Resources Corp., which is considered the largest pure-play E&P company in the Delaware Basin. Permian Resources’ idea was to combine two successful E&P companies, creating a better, stronger, and more strategically compelling company. Centennial and Colgate announced an agreement to merge in May, denying rumors that Colgate, a privately held independent Midland-based company, had been seeking an IPO. The merger estimated Colgate at about $3.9 billion and consists of 269.3 million shares of Centennial stock, $525 million of cash, and the assumption of approximately $1.4 billion of Colgate’s outstanding net debt. Permian Resources, being the combined company, has a deep inventory of “high-quality” drilling locations on around 180,000 net acres the companies anticipate will provide more than $1 billion of free cash flow in 2023 at current strip prices, in accordance with the company release on Sept. 1.