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Gabon to buy Carlyle’s oil business, preempting $1.3 billion sale
© Reuters. The logo of the Carlyle Group is displayed at the company’s office in Tokyo, Japan October 17, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
By Ron Bousso
LONDON (Reuters) – Gabon’s national oil company has agreed to acquire Carlyle’s Assala Energy after it used its right to preempt the sale of the business for $1.3 billion to France’s Maurel & Prom, the firms said on Friday.
Maurel & Prom had agreed in August to acquire Assala Energy for $730 million, a deal which also included rolling over a $600 million credit facility.
But following a military coup in the west African country in late August, the Gabonese national oil firm sought to exercise its preemptive right on the acquisition in November.
The French energy company Maurel & Prom said the new purchase agreement to Gabon Oil Company “supersedes” the deal it had made with the private equity giant.
Carlyle said the terms of the new deal were “materially the same”.
Maurel & Prom shares were little changed at 0910 GMT.
Carlyle’s non-U.S. energy arm CIEP first invested in Assala in 2017 when it acquired Shell (LON:)’s ageing operations in Gabon for $628 million.
Gabon produces about 200,000 barrels a day (bpd) of , making it the second-smallest OPEC producer.
Assala has increased its production in the African country by 30% since the 2017 acquisition to 45,000 bpd, and has also increased the size of its oil and gas reserves by 160% through exploration, Carlyle said last August.
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