Oil India, OVL to make joint bid to acquire 10% Videocon stake in African gas field

06 Feb 2013 Evaluate

Oil India (OIL) and ONGC’s overseas investment arm, ONGC Videsh (OVL), will make a joint bid to acquire a 10% stake of Videocon Energy Ventures in Mozambique’s Rovuma gas basin next week. Videocon plans to raise $3 billion (Rs 16,000 crore) from the transaction and plans to utilize these funds to pay off its debts.

Videocon, back in 2008, had paid $75 million for the stake in the southeast African nation’s Rovuma-I area. Anadarko, which has 36.5% stake in the basin, is the operator. While, Bharat Petroleum Corporation’s and production arm, BPRL owns 10% in the Rovuma basin. For the remaining stake, Mitsui holds 20% and Cove Energy owns 8.5%, while Mozambique ENH has 15% in the basin.

Further, early this year, Anadarko announced recoverable gas in the range of 35 trillion cubic feet (tcf) to 65tcf from the basin. The operator has already formed marketing teams, for holding discussion with companies in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and India to sell gas from the basin. According to them, at least five other bidders have expressed initial interest, which include Shell, ExxonMobil, BP, Spain's Repsol, China's largest integrated energy powerhouse Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec).

To start with, the consortium plans to offload only 10 million tonnes in two trains. The two trains that the consortium will put in place would initially require $18-20 billion, of which it would raise around $14 billion in long-term loans. The remaining amount will be brought in by the consortium members in individual capacity. Further investments would be taken care of from the revenues the project earns.

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