OIL & GAS

Tony Elumelu Goes Into Oil, Acquires Oil Licence OML 17

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Tony Elumelu&comma; the founder of Heirs Holdings has ventured into oil business full scale<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Tony <strong>Elumelu&comma;<&sol;strong> the founder of  Heirs Holdings has ventured into oil business full scale through the acquisition of oil licence OML 17 on 15th January&comma; 2021&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Heirs Holdings is a leading pan-African investment company&period; Its investment portfolio spans the power&comma; oil and gas&comma; financial services&comma; hospitality&comma; real estate&comma; and healthcare sectors&comma; operating in twenty-three countries worldwide<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a statement signed by Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu and made available to Openife Nigeria&comma; OML 17 has a current production capacity of 27&comma;000 barrels of oil equivalent per day&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The statement reads&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Heirs Holdings &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;HH”&rpar;&comma; the leading African strategic investor&comma; in partnership with affiliated company Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Transcorp”&rpar;&comma; Nigeria’s largest publicly listed conglomerate&comma; announced today the unconditional acquisition of a 45&percnt; participating interest in Nigerian oil licence OML 17 and related assets&comma; through TNOG Oil and Gas Ltd &lpar;a related company of Heirs Holdings and Transcorp&rpar;&comma; from the Shell Petroeum Development Company of Nigeria&comma; Total E&amp&semi;P Nigeria and Eni&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; In addition&comma; TNOG Oil and Gas Limited will have sole operatorship of the asset<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>The transaction is one of the largest oil and gas financings in Africa in more than a decade&comma; with a financing component of US&dollar;1&period;1 billion&comma; provided by a consortium of global and regional banks and investors&period; OML 17 has a current production capacity of 27&comma;000 barrels of oil equivalent per day and&comma; according to our estimates&comma; 2P reserves of 1&period;2 billion barrels of oil equivalent&comma; with an additional 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent resources of further exploration potential&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The investment demonstrates a further important advance in the execution of Heirs Holdings’ integrated energy strategy and the Group’s commitment to Africa’s development&comma; through long term investments that create economic prosperity and social wealth&period; Heirs Holdings’ heritage and approach to business fundamentally underscores its commitment to inclusive development and shared prosperity with its host communities&period; Heirs Holdings is fully invested in the development of the Niger Delta region&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Heirs Holdings’ strategy of creating the leading integrated energy business in Africa is executed through a series of strategic portfolio holdings&period; Transcorp is one of the largest power producers in Nigeria&comma; with 2&comma;000 MW of installed capacity&comma; through ownership of Transcorp Power Plant and the recent acquisition of Afam Power Plc and Afam Three Fast Power Limited&period; Transcorp closed the US&dollar;300 million Afam acquisitions in November 2020&period; Transcorp supplies electricity to the Republic of Benin&comma; as part of an emphasis on promoting regional integration and delivering robust power supply to catalyse development in Africa&period; Transcorp also operates OPL281&comma; under a production sharing contract with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;NNPC”&rpar;&period; Similarly&comma; Heirs Holdings’ subsidiary&comma; Tenoil is the operator of OPL 2008&comma; under a production sharing contract with NNPC&period; Tenoil also owns the Ata Marginal Field&comma; which will commence production in Q2&comma; 2021&comma; with 3&comma;500 barrels of oil per day&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>Chairman of Heirs Holdings&comma; Tony Elumelu stated&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have a very clear vision&colon; creating Africa’s first integrated energy multinational&comma; a global quality business&comma; uniquely focused on Africa and Africa’s energy needs&period; The acquisition of such a high-quality asset&comma; with significant potential for further growth&comma; is a strong statement of our confidence in Nigeria&comma; the Nigerian oil and gas sector and a tribute to the extremely high-quality management team that we have assembled&period; <&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>”As a Nigerian&comma; and more particularly an indigene of the Niger Delta region&comma; I understand well our responsibilities that come with stewardship of the asset&comma; our engagement with communities and the strategic importance of the oil and gas sector in Nigeria&period; We see significant benefits from integrating our production&comma; with our ability to power Nigeria&comma; through Transcorp&comma; and deliver value across the energy value chain&period;”<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Speaking further&comma; he said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I would like to thank Shell&comma; Total and ENI&comma; for the professionalism of the process&comma; the Federal Government of Nigeria&comma; the Ministry of Petroleum Resources&comma; and the NNPC for the confidence they have placed in us&period;”<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Speaking on the investment&comma; the President&sol;GCEO of Transcorp&comma; Owen Omogiafo&comma; said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This deal further demonstrates Transcorp’s integrated energy strategy and our determination to power Africa&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Heirs Holdings was advised by Standard Chartered Plc&comma; as Global Coordinator&comma; and United Capital Plc&comma; with a syndicate of lending institutions including Afreximbank&comma; ABSA&comma; Africa Finance Corporation&comma; Union Bank of Nigeria&comma; Hybrid Capital&comma; and global asset management firm Amundi&period; The deal also involves Schlumberger as a technical partner&comma; as well as the trading arm of Shell as an off taker&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Heirs Holdings has created one of Africa’s largest&comma; indigenous owned&comma; oil and gas businesses&comma; headquartered in Lagos&comma; Nigeria and led by a board and management team with significant regional and global experience in production&comma; exploration&comma; and value creation in the resources sector&period; The HH Group is committed to the highest standards of safety&comma; health&comma; and community relations&comma; together with best practice in governance and accountability&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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