Total is buying Maersk’s oil and gas business in a US$7.45 billion deal which the French company said would strengthen its operations in the North Sea and raise its output to 3 million barrels per day by 2019.
For Danish company A.P. Moller Maersk, the sale of Maersk Oil, with reserves equivalent to around 1 billion barrels of oil, fits with a strategy of focusing on its shipping business and other activities announced last year.
The world’s top oil companies have been back on the takeover trail over the last year, helped by signs of a recovery in the oil market.
Total expects its biggest oil deal since it acquired Elf in 2000 to generate financial synergies of more than US$400 million per year, in particular by combining assets in the North Sea. It also said the acquisition would boost earnings and cash flow.
Expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2018, the deal could see some job cuts particularly in Britain where there are overlaps, Total said, adding that it could make additional cost savings of about US$200 million per year.
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