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- Exxon Fires Up Acquisition Engine, Buys Kosmos' Stake in Jubilee Oil Field
- Exxon Mobil is finally putting its large cash position to use with the acquisition of Kosmos Energy's stake in the Jubilee oil field offshore Ghana. Exxon is close to finalizing the deal, the WSJ reported Tuesday. Analysts have previously valued Kosmos' oil field holdings in Ghana at $3 billion to $6...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
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- Kosmos Energy Signs Agreement for Second Block Offshore Ghana; Plans to Drill Exploratory Well in 2007
- Company Partners with Tullow Oil and Anadarko Petroleum On Two Ghanaian Blocks; Validates Area's Potential DALLAS -- Kosmos Energy announces today that it has added a second block offshore the Republic of Ghana to the company's West African portfolio and has secured partners on both blocks. Kosmos and its...
- Research articles 2006-12-13
- Kosmos Energy Named "Explorer of the Year"
- DALLAS -- Kosmos Energy announces today that the company has been named "Explorer of the Year" by the World Junior Oil & Gas Congress. Kosmos was recognized for the company's discovery of the Mahogany Field in the Republic of Ghana's deep waters announced earlier this year, possibly one of the...
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- EX-TRITON EXECS FORM KOSMOS ENERGY TO EXPLORE WEST AFRICA
- Private-equity providers Warburg Pincus and Blackstone Capital Partners have funded a new exploration company, Dallas-based Kosmos Energy LLC, which plans to explore West Africa. Kosmos founders, Warburg Pincus and Blackstone, an affiliate of The Blackstone Group, have made provisional commitments of up to $300 million. The company has...
- Research articles 2004-02-16
- BP's Interest in Kosmos Raises Stakes for Ghana Oil Assets
- BP has apparently joined the growing list of major energy companies -- that already includes ExxonMobil and China's CNOOC -- interested in oil assets offshore Ghana. The focus is Kosmos Energy, the private equity-backed U.S. company that is selling off its 23.5 percent stake in the Jubilee...
- Blog posts 2009-10-24
- Kosmos's Ghana Sale Bid "illegal": GNPC Source
- By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) - State-run Ghana National Petroleum Corp GNPC believes Kosmos Energy's deal to sell its stake in the huge Jubilee oil field to Exxon Mobil XOM is illegal and is ready to buy the stake itself, a GNPC source said on Monday. Ghana has received expressions...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Energy Roundup: Pickens' Wind Farm Falters, Oil Speculator Crackdown and More
- Pickens scales down plans for world's largest wind farm -- The lack of a transmission line has disrupted T. Boone Pickens' plan to build a 1,000-megawatt wind farm -- the world's largest -- in Pampa, Texas. Pickens' company Mesa Power ordered 687 turbines from GE for about $2 billion...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- China Targets Addax, Kosmos in Overseas Asset Grab
- China is fueling much of the consolidation within the oil and gas industry, with as much as $12 billion worth of deal currently in the pipeline. The latest company to catch China's asset-focused eye is Addax Petroleum, a Geneva-based oil and gas explorer, the South China Morning Post reported Monday....
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- In brief: Kosmos formed/Energy buy-out/Venture deals rise.
- Byline: Michael Herman Warburg Pincus and The Blackstone Group, the US private equity firms, have committed $300m to Kosmos Energy, an oil exploration and production start-up focusing on Africa. Details were not disclosed, but sources close to the deal said Warburg Pincus led the...
- Research articles 2004-02-13
- Ex-Triton execs launch Kosmos with $300 million
- Private-equity providers Warburg Pincus and Blackstone Capital Partners have funded a new exploration company, Dallas-based Kosmos Energy LLC, formed by former Triton Energy Ltd. executives who are planning to explore offshore West Africa.Kosmos founders, Warburg Pincus and Blackstone, an affiliate of The Blackstone Group, have made provisional commitments of up...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Week in Oil & Gas: Climate Bill's Small GOP Blessing and the Race For Energy Assets
- Earnings season is ramping up again with companies like Halliburton and General Electric already pulling back the curtain on their third quarter results. But before we dive into the numbers over here at BNET Energy -- a word or two about some developments last week shaping the fundamentals of the energy...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Energy Roundup: CFTC Eyes Trading Limits, BP Profit Slumps, Hedge Fund Launches Oil Venture, and More
- Federal regulators mull limits on energy trading -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission kicked off its study of speculation in commodity markets with hearings Tuesday, which may lead to new limits on how many futures contracts investors can hold in oil and energy commodities. Opponents to regulation blame wild swings in oil on...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Ghana's Jubilee Field Keeps Getting Bigger, and the Bidding War Does Too
- The Jubilee field offshore Ghana may be bigger than previously thought, news that promises to ramp up exploration interest in the area and potentially complicates ExxonMobil's plans to acquire a piece of the West African oil-and-gas pie. U.S.-based Anadarko Petroleum and the UK's Tullow Oil announced Thursday another successful appraisal well in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Tullow Oil Reels in Shell, Sells Super-Major on Potential Offshore French Guiana
- Tullow Oil, the tiny-but-mighty UK-based company, has sold super-major Royal Dutch Shell on the potential of fields offshore French Guiana, a territory on South America's northern coast. Tullow Oil is a partner in the Jubilee field offshore Ghana in West Africa -- a long ways from South America. But...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- China's CNPC Eyes Repsol YPF's Argentine Arm
- In yet another sign of China's interest in locking up oil and gas resources for its energy-hungry economy, China National Petroleum Company is reportedly reviving its $17 billion bid for the Argentine arm of Repsol YPF. CNPC may offer to buy up to 75 percent of YPF...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Blackstone Plans Portfolio IPOs
- By Megan Davies DUBAI (Reuters UK) - Private equity firm Blackstone Group BX is planning to list up to eight of its portfolio companies, according to a source who received a letter the firm sent to investors on Friday. The letter details that Blackstone is positioning one company -- hospital...
- News items 2009-10-12
- China's CNOOC In Bidding War With Exxon For Huge Ghana Oil Field
- Chinese oil giant CNOOC is threatening to outbid Exxon for a stake in the Jubilee oil field in Ghana. Exxon has bid $4 billion for this 23.5% stake, which is currently owned by Dallas-based Kosmos Energy. Judging from the WSJ's report , it sounds...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Week in Oil & Gas: Foreign Oil Sands Grab and Climate Shenanigans
- Korea National Oil Corp.'s $3.9 billion acquisition of Harvest Energy sent a message last week to the industry: the Canadian oil sands are back. High operating costs and low crude prices turned the region into an investment desert for months. That dim view is brightening, however, as...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Sinopec's Bid for Addax Highlights China's Shift to Smaller M&A Deals
- Sinopec's reported bid of $7.84 billion for Addax Petroleum is more than just another example of China's well-documented desire to acquire global energy resources. It also highlights a shift from attempted large-scale acquisitions -- such as Chinalco's failed grab for an 18 percent stake in Rio Tinto -- to smaller M&A deals. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Clear Sailing at Atwood Oceanics
- The Company: Atwood Oceanics, a Houston-based global offshore drilling company. The Filing: Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 25, 2008. The Finding: Atwood announced a new contract for its moored semisubmersible rig "Atwood Hunter," which can operate at water depths up to...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
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