Total Acquires Tullow Entire Interests in the Uganda Lake Albert Project
April 23 2020 - 3:00AM
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Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT) and Tullow have entered
into an Agreement, through which Total shall acquire Tullow's
entire interests in Uganda Lake Albert development project
including the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.
The overall consideration paid by Total to Tullow will be $575M,
with an initial payment of $500M at closing and $75M when the
partners take the Final Investment Decision to launch the project.
In addition, conditional payments will be made to Tullow linked to
production and oil price, which will be triggered when Brent prices
are above $62/bbl. The terms of the transaction have been discussed
with the relevant Ugandan Government and Tax Authorities and
agreement in principle has been reached on the tax treatment of the
transaction.
Under the terms of the deal, Total will acquire all of Tullow's
existing 33.3334% stake in each of the Lake Albert project licenses
EA1, EA1A, EA2 and EA3A and the proposed East African Crude Oil
Pipeline (EACOP) System. The transaction is subject to the approval
of Tullow's shareholders, to customary regulatory and government
approvals and to CNOOC's right to exercise pre-emption on 50% of
the transaction.
"We are pleased to announce that a new agreement has been
reached with Tullow to acquire their entire interests in the Lake
Albert development project for less than 2$/bbl in line with our
strategy of acquiring long-term resources at low cost, and that we
have an agreement with the Uganda government on the fiscal
framework," said Patrick Pouyanné, Total Chairman and CEO. "This
acquisition will enable us, together with our partner CNOOC, to now
move the project forward toward FID, driving costs down to deliver
a robust long-term project."
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natural gas and low-carbon electricity. Our 100,000 employees are
committed to better energy that is safer, more affordable, cleaner
and accessible to as many people as possible. Active in more than
130 countries, our ambition is to become the responsible energy
major.
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