BPCL zooms as its arm inks definitive agreement to acquire stake in TYNGD

17 Mar 2016 Evaluate

Bharat Petroleum Corporation is currently trading at Rs. 863.65, up by 47.30 points or 5.79% from its previous closing of Rs. 816.35 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 824.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 867.00 and Rs. 822.00 respectively. So far 124441 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 987.00 on 23-Jul-2015 and a 52 week low of Rs. 704.40 on 13-May-2015.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 867.00 and Rs. 796.20 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 62485.33 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 54.93% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 30.69% and 14.38% respectively.

Bharat Petroleum Corporation’s (BPCL) 100% wholly owned subsidiary - Bharat PetroResources (BPRL) along with OIL India (OIL) and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), acting jointly as the Indian Consortium, signed definitive agreement to acquire participatory shares representing 29.9% of the charter capital of LLC ‘TYNGD’, a company organized under the law of Russian Federation, from LLC RN Upstream, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rosneft Oil Company, the National Oil Company (NOC) of Russia. The acquisition is subject to relevant Board. Government and regulatory approvals and is expected to close by September 2016.

Rosneft Oil Company holds 80% shares while BP PLC (UK) holds 20% shares in TYNGD through their respective subsidiaries. TYNGD is currently producing about 20,000 bopd which is expected to be ramped up to about 100,000 bopd by 2021.

In addition to the above, a Heads of Agreement (HoA) was signed for evaluation of 23.9% participatory shares in the CJSC Vankorneft (a subsidiary of Rosneft) by the consortium of OIL, IOCL and BPRL with Rosneft Oil Company. CJSC Vankorneft is a company organized under the laws of the Russian Federation and is the owner of Vankor Field and North Vankor license. Vankor is Russia’s second largest field by production and accounts for around 4% of Russian production and currently producing oil at a peak level of approximately 440,000 bopd.

Additionally, an MoU was signed between Rosneft and the consortium of OIL, IOCL & BPRL for joint evaluation of certain other assets of Rosneft in Russia. Rothschild is the exclusive financial advisor to the Indian Consortium, which is also being advised by CGG as Technical Advisor, Latham & Watkins as Legal Advisor and EY as Tax and Accounting advisor.

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