...Acquisition/Investment Cancelled Acquisition/Investment Group By: Investments Company Name Relationship Type Primary Industry Last Investment Date LTM Total Rev. ($mm) LFQ Total Assets ($mm) LFQ Total Debt ($mm) Period End Date Cuadrilla Resources Holding Limited Pending Acquisition/Investment Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Feb-16-2010 - - - - Website: There is no website for this company Business Description: Cuadrilla Resources Holding Limited operates as an oil and gas exploration and production company. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in the United Kingdom. Investment Coverage: - Relationship with Investor/Parent: Total Investment ($mm): - Expected Exit Date: - Percent Owned (%): - Return on Investment (%): - Controlling Interest: - Investor Notes: - Transactions: Date: Feb-16-2010 Type: Private Placement Size ($mm): 58.00 Status: Announced Eagle Energy, LLC Pending Acquisition/Investment Electric Utilities Dec-21-2009 - - - - Website: www.eagleenergyllc.com Business Description: Eagle Energy, LLC provides alternative energy supply, and electricity and natural gas consulting and aggregation services to commercial, industrial, and governmental entities. The company also offers energy aggregation for communities. It has operations in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island...
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...2. Oil and gas sector This chapter begins with an overview of the oil and gas industry in Malaysia. Description of the value chain of the industry is given in section 2.2, followed by the industry’s economic performance in section 2.3. Section 2.4 focuses on the scope of the inquiry regarding issues in the oil and gas industry. 2.1 Oil and gas industry in Malaysia This section provides an overview of the oil and gas industry in Malaysia. 2.1.1 History Oil and gas production have been a mainstay of Malaysia’s growth since oil was first drilled in 1910 in Miri, Sarawak. The first oil well (known as The Grand Old Lady) which was discovered by Shell, started with a production of 83 barrels per day (bbls/d) and reached a maximum of 15,000 bbls/d in 1929. There were no other drilling activities elsewhere in Borneo or Peninsular Malaya until the 1950s. [1, 2, 3] Petroleum activities began increasing significantly in 1960s due to the discovery and development of offshore fields in Borneo. The late 1960s saw the beginning of offshore oil exploration in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. In the 1970s, some oil fields in Malaysia were producing 90,000 to 99,000 bbls/d. [2] In the early days, foreign oil companies dominated the oil and gas industry in Malaysia with Shell and Esso being the two major players. This was followed by several other foreign companies such as Conoco, Mobil, Aquitaine, Oceanic and Teiseki. The national company, Petronas came on to the scene in...
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...The challenges and the strategies in Royal Dutch Shell current business environment 1 Introduction Royal Dutch Shell was established in 1907, the equity merger of the Shell Transport and Trade Corporate Limited and the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company. Royal Dutch Shell is an international energy and chemical group. With the development of Royal Dutch Shell, the group has gradually become the world's leading international oil company. However, since the global economy makes the rapid progress, Royal Dutch Shell has been confronted with the increasingly fiercer competition in the market. Surrounded by so much fierce market competition, Royal Dutch Shell is also faced with lots of challenges. And the challenges will have the important influence on the survival and the development of Royal Dutch Shell. Consequently, Royal Dutch Shell will take the corresponding measures to meet the challenges in order to stand in an impregnable position in the competitive market. The article will make a thorough inquiry in detail. The first section is to conduct the challenges in Royal Dutch Shell business environment that are of current strategic importance according to the PESTLE analysis and The Porter’s Five Forces Analysis, and analyze the PESTLE analysis and The Porter’s Five Forces Analysis on the basis of the SWOT matrix. The second section is to make an analysis on the strategies for the challenges that have been identified with the Boston matrix. The third section is to make the recommendations...
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...Bangladesh is important to world energy markets because of its large potential natural gas reserves. Bangladesh's location near India, plus southeast Asia, also makes it a potentially important regional energy trading hub. Note: information contained in this report is the best available as of February 2002 and can change. GENERAL BACKGROUND Bangladesh has received more than $30 billion in disbursed grant aid and loans from foreign donors (including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the U.N. Development Program, the United States, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Western Europe) since its independence in 1971, but remains one of the poorest and most densely populated countries in the world. Bangladesh historically has run a large trade deficit, which it finances largely through foreign aid and remittances from the many Bangladeshi workers abroad (largely in the Persian Gulf region). Overall, foreign aid provides Bangladesh with around 40% of government revenues and 50% of foreign exchange. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has stated that Bangladesh's main problems include civil unrest and political instability, natural disasters, and inadequate infrastructure. Bangladesh is primarily agricultural (around two-thirds of the labor force and 35% of the gross domestic product -- GDP), although urbanization is proceeding rapidly. This heavy reliance on agriculture makes Bangladesh vulnerable to natural disasters such as cyclones, floods, and droughts, as well as to world commodity...
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...INTRODUCTION ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), a Central Public Sector Enterprise/Undertaking (CPSE/CPSU) of the Government of India, under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (2MoP&NG). OVL is engaged in exploration and production of oil and gas outside India. OVL was incorporated as Hydrocarbons India Private Limited, on March 5, 1965 with registered office in New Delhi to perform international exploration and production business. The Company was rechristened as ONGC Videos Limited w.e.f. 15th June, 1989. With the widening of the energy supply gap from domestic production, participation in oveRs.eas oil and gas assets for equity oil was revived in the mid nineties. OVL participated in few exploration projects then, which could not bear desired results. In January, 2000, OVL was granted special empowerment by the Government. The special empowerment facilitated better and smooth functioning of the Company in the international environment as evidenced by a string of successful acquisitions post January, 2000. OVL presently has participation either directly or through wholly owned subsidiaries/joint venture company in 33 E&P projects in 14 countries namely Vietnam (2 projects), Russia (2 projects), Sudan (3 projects), Iran (1 project), Iraq (1 project), Libya (1 project), Myanmar (2 projects), Syria (2 projects), Cuba (2 projects), Brazil (6 projects)...
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...process will be introduced with results presented. Finally, a discussion of findings will conclude, supplying answers to the following questions: (1) What should the acquisition price for XTO shares have been? (2) Which comparable firm is the best comparison firm for XTO Energy? (3) Why did ExxonMobil want to acquire XTO? (4) Based on the analysis, did ExxonMobil overpay for XTO or get a Bargain? (5) What additional information could help with this analysis? INTRODUCTION Economic Considerations and Pertinent Features of the Energy Industry The timing of this acquisition corresponds with an economic downturn in the energy industry. This downturn is represented in Figure 1 which depicts the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas Index (DJUSEN). ExxonMobil’s...
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...Strategic Research Project Analysis: NOBLE ENERGY, INC Respectfully Submitted to: Dr Shengsheng Charlie Huang Strategic Management MGMT 4309- Fall 2013 Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3.1 Company Background 3.2 Purpose of the study 3. External Analysis 4.3 General Environmental Analysis 4.4.1 Demographic Segment 4.4.2 Economic Segment 4.4.3 Political/Legal Segment 4.4.4 Socio-Cultural Segment 4.4.5 Technological Segment 4.4.6 Global Segment 4.4.7 Summary of the General Environmental Analysis 4.4.8 Industry Driving Forces 4.4 Industry Analysis 4.5.9 Description of the Industry 4.5.10 Industry Dominant Economic Features 4.5.11.1 Market Size 4.5.11.2 Market Growth Rate 4.5.11.3 Industry Trends 4.5.11 Five Forces Analysis 4.5.12.4 Threats of New Entrants 4.5.12.5 Power of Suppliers 4.5.12.6 Power of Buyers 4.5.12.7 Power of Substitutes 4.5.12.8 Intensity of Rivalry 4.5.12.9 Summary of Industry Analysis 4.5 Competition Analysis 4.6.12 Industry Competitors 4.6.13 Rivals Anticipated Strategic Moves 4.6.14 Summary of Competitive Analysis 4.6.15 Key Success Factors 4. Internal Analysis 4.1 Organizational Analysis 4.1.1 Corporate Values...
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...Business Analysis III - Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Leonard VanBerkel MGT/521 October 15, 2012 Kirk Davis Business Analysis III - Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Anadarko); head office in The Woodlands, Texas, employees 4,800 people and is a Fortune 500 company with recorded revenues of $13.967 billion for fiscal year ending 2011. This represented an increase of 28% over 2010. Anadarko posted record sales volume in 2011. Contrasted against Anadarko is Exxon, which had reported revenues over the same period of $452.926 billion and was ranked number one for most profitable companies, realizing profits of $41.060 billion (CNNMoney, 2012). Anadarko is ranked 192nd whereas Exxon is ranked 1st. The most glaring difference financially between the two companies is not just the large revenue gap, but the difference in profitability. Despite achieving record sales numbers and double digit growth, Anadarko recorded a net loss of $2.649 billion for fiscal year ending 2011 (CNNMoney, 2012). There are a large number of companies in the petroleum industry that realized large profits on varying degrees of revenues in 2011, yet Anadarko showed large losses. The question that arises is why did Anadarko lose money, while so many other companies in the same industry were profitable? A SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis has been performed on Anadarko to determine if it is worth investing in this company, or consider it another casualty...
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...CIMA Global Business Challenge Case Study YJ - Oil and gas industry YJ - Oil and gas industry case Industry background Oil is a naturally formed liquid found in the Earth’s crust and preserved there for many millions of years. Oil is being extracted in increasing volumes and is vital to many industries for maintaining industrial growth and for nearly all forms of transportation. Natural gas is used in a wide variety of industrial processes, for electricity generation, as well as for domestic heating. Natural gas is described as the “cleanest” of all fossil fuels, as it generates the lowest levels of carbon emissions of all of the fossil fuels. The Middle East remains the region of the world which has the largest proven oil reserves, with Saudi Arabia alone possessing over 20% of the known global oil reserves. Additionally, the UK’s North Sea and areas in USA, Canada and Russia still have substantial reserves. Also there is an increase in oil and gas exploration being undertaken in, and around the coasts of, Asian and African countries. It is not known how long the world's oil reserves will last. The oil industry has stated that there are only 40 years of proven reserves. However, with improved technology, there is expected to be the ability to extract more oil from known reserves. Therefore, the length of time that oil reserves will last is expected to exceed 40 years. However, another factor affecting the life of oil reserves is the speed of consumption. This had been forecast...
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...The demand for natural gas has increased in the past decade and that has lead to exploration into unexplored areas of the United States. These explorations lead to the Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virginia. The Fernow is well known for long-term Silviculture, watershed, and ecological research (Kochenderfer 2006). As the preparation drilling a total of over 700 hundred trees were removed. During hydraulic fracturing which is a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure to extract natural gas ("hydraulic fracturing," 2012). During this process many of the trees and shrubs showed signs of being affected by the process. The trees started to brown early, they stared weltering and fell to the ground earlier then they should have. One would think that due to drilling and the release of natural gases that you wouldn’t find signs of wildlife. That’s not the case with the white tail deer. The white tail deer require the intake of salt and other minirals especially during the summer and spring months. The water coming from the gas site had a high concentration of minerals that the deer liked. That’s the one unqie thing about deer is they are an adaptive species. The black bear population did see a slight decrease in activity around the drill site. According to the CIA world fact book the U.S. has the highest demand for natural gas with 683,300,000,000 cubic meters of gas in 2010, with...
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...A SUMMER TRAINING PROJECT REPORT ON “Pricing and affordability of Gas for Different industries in India.” AT SBI Capital Markets, Mumbai Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement For the award of the degree Of Masters of Business Administration Session (2011-2013) Submitted to: Submitted by: Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Ankit Johri Mumbai MBA Capital Markets Roll No. A34 NARSEE MONJEE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, MUMBAI * Contents Acknowledgement 4 1. Introduction 4 History 4 GAS Utilization Policy: 5 NELP 6 Production sharing Contracts 6 2. Demand and supply 7 Supply Scenario: 7 Status of NELP discoveries 9 Supply from various regions: 9 Demand 10 Need for Imports 11 TAPI Pipeline Agreement : 12 3. PRICING 13 History 13 Prices Of Different fuels: 14 Pricing Regimes in the Indian Gas Sector 15 Pricing under the APM and Discovered Fields Regime 16 Pricing under the NELP regime 17 Pricing of LNG 18 4. Fuels and their shares : 20 Sector Demands and supply: 21 5. Gas v/s Coal and other liquid fuels: 22 Cost of Gas to different industries: 24 Power 24 Fertilizers: 26 CGD, Refineries and Petrochemicals 27 Other Advantages of Natural Gas: 28 6. Cost of Different fuels for Ceramic industries: 30 Asian Granito: 30 Nitco 32 7. Pooling mechanism: 35 Need for Pool Pricing 35 Proposed Roadmap of Pool Pricing Mechanism...
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...`BP is one of the largest vertically integrated oil and gas companies in the world.The company'soperations primarily include the exploration and production of gas and crude oil, as well as themarketing and trading of natural gas, power, and natural gas liquids. BP, with a focus to drive futureperformance, continuously invests in research and development (R&D). Strong R&D capabilitiesenable BP to attain competitive advantage over its peers, maintain technological edge over itscompetitors, and stay ahead of industry trends. However, the company is Robust research and development capabilities Vertically integrated operations Wide geographic presence Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Transformational partnership between BPand Reliance Industries Expansion of the biofuels business in Brazil Boosting of PTA production capacity inChina Strategic agreements and contract Risks concerning environmental Instability in some oil-producing regions Saturation of resources in the North Sea Strengths Robust research and development capabilities BP, with a focus to drive future performance continuously, invests in research and development(R&D). Investment in R&D is also a measure of the company’s commitment to the future organic growth of the business. In FY2011, BP’s expenditure on R&D was $636 million. As of FY2011, BP treated 78 wells with Bright Water technology in Alaska, Argentina, Azerbaijan,and Pakistan, which has delivered increased...
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...Noble Energy Inc. (NYSE: NBL) is an independent energy company engaged in worldwide oil and gas exploration and was one of the first independent producers to explore in the Gulf of Mexico which has helped form the industry and its own success. Noble Energy was founded by Llyod Noble after he purchased a drilling rig with Arthur Olson in 1921 when oil was struck on his family farm. After acquiring 38 rigs in 1930 Noble and Olson decided to dissolve their partnership and form separate companies. In 1932, Lloyd Noble formed another company, naming it Samedan Oil Corporation in tribute to his three children Sam, Ed and Ann to expand into oil production to go hand and hand the drilling side of the industry. That company is known today as Noble Energy Inc. Upon Lloyd Noble’s death in 1950 the companies interest was transferred to a charitable foundation he had formed several years before his death, the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, where both companies operated as wholly owned subsidiaries. The relationship between Noble Drilling and Samedan strengthened when the Noble Foundation purchased an oil field trucking company named B.F. Walker, Inc., this provided Noble Foundation with a fleet of vehicles to move the drilling and production equipment utilized by Noble Drilling and Samedan. In 1969, the U.S. congress passed a tax reform provision that stipulated that charitable foundation could no longer own more than 20 percent of any corporation or commercial enterprise. This led to the...
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...representatives from different municipalities their ability to control gas drilling operations through local zoning, leaving them defenseless to protect homeowners, parks and schools from being surrounded by drilling sites or waste pits. The Vermont’s May 2012 legislation is a bill proposes to prohibit the issuance of a permit for a discharge into an injection well for conventional or enhanced recovery of natural gas or oil. In 2011 there was zoning law in New York State effectively banning oil and gas drilling within the geographical borders of the township. 2.Using the studies, such as The Final Report on Unconventional Gas in Europe, write a brief 1-2 paragraph statement that discusses at least one specific country’s regulations (see page 5 for general information and pages 48, 49, and 50 for country-specific information.) “Coal seam gas is a highly regulated industry that operates in Australia under strict guidelines and is answerable to several government agencies. CSG exploration and production is heavily regulated, working under strong rules on environmental management, water management, land access and other issues. CSG activities are covered by numerous pieces of legislation and several governmental agencies, all of which demand environmentally acceptable outcomes during exploration and production. Environmental and rehabilitation performance requirements are set as conditions on exploration and production permits. CSG companies must also lodge financial securities...
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... Memo To: From: CC: Date: Re: Part II Team Paper Tennessee Natural Gas Pipeline The use of natural gas is the cleanest burning hydrocarbon currently being used as a fuel. With over 49% of households relying on natural gas for everyday heating of their homes it has become just as important as the standard crude oil. With Oil prices taking a rise and fall in the most recent years the move to natural gas has become an important decision for the regular consumer. Even though U.S retail price for all grades of gasoline fell this month to 6.8 cents from the prior week to $3.662 per gallon in accordance to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), it still remains at a high average for the regular consumer (American Petroleum Institute Statistic, 2011). Although the resources for natural gas pumps are not readily available Chesapeake Energy, Inc. plans to break ground and be at the forefront of this venture, and make natural gas an affordable commodity to all levels of income brackets. Components of Retail Regular Gasoline Prices [pic] Sources: U.S. Dept of Energy, U.S. Dept of Labor, and API This memo will recommend and introduce a new project to be considered for implementation into the SBU portfolio. This project will be the combination of an offering of a crude oil and natural gas mixture of fuel; that will be offered to the public sector as another alternative to the use of...
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