先锋以64亿美元收购二叠纪盆地双点能源公司离心泵

据世界石油4月2日消息称，先锋自然资源公司将以64亿美元的价格收购双点能源公司，不到三个月前，先锋自然资源公司刚刚完成了对另一家页岩钻井公司Parsley能源公司的收购，以扩大其在美国二叠盆地的业务。

根据先锋公司的一份声明，这笔交易包括约2720万股先锋普通股、10亿美元现金和承担约9亿美元的债务和负债。这笔交易预计将在第二季度完成。彭博新闻社早些时候报道说，两家公司已接近达成协议。

先锋将通过这笔交易将其业务提高到100万英亩以上，收购“主要未开采”的新土地。

先锋首席执行官Scott D. Sheffield在声明说：“双点能源公司在米德兰盆地积累了令人印象深刻的高质量足迹。”他指的是二叠纪页岩区的土地。这笔交易将“为我们的股东创造重大价值”。

此次收购将是今年北美石油业规模最大的交易之一，也是油价在过去5个月迅速飙升至每桶60美元以上以来的第一笔大宗交易。双点的投资者包括阿波罗全球管理公司、量子能源合作伙伴、磁力资本和黑石集团的 GSO 资本合作伙伴。

在史上最严重的石油工业崩溃之后，谢菲尔德正在二叠纪盆地进行扩张。今年以来，原油价格上涨了27%，超过了2020年的跌幅，原因是人们越来越乐观地认为，各经济体将继续开放，这将刺激对汽油、柴油和其他燃料的需求。

该交易是美国石油勘探公司为捱过疫情带来的动荡而进行的一系列合并交易中的最新一笔。先锋在10月同意以45亿美元收购Parsley能源公司，此前康菲石油公司以9.7美元收购了康乔资源公司。

彭博情报高级行业分析师Vincent G. Piazza在一份报告中表示：“先锋将成为二叠纪整合的大型独立幸存者之一。该公司最近的交易创造了“盆地中一个强大的竞争对手，其规模和资产集中度令人羡慕。”

双点是由联合首席执行官Cody Campbell和John Sellers创立的，他们在美国页岩气繁荣的早期，他们曾在德克萨斯州南部的鹰福特地区承包钻井租约，后来转投利润更丰厚的二叠纪盆地。在那里，他们在包括阿波罗在内的私人股本公司的支持下，聚集了大量股份。2017年，这两人以28亿美元的价格将约7万英亩土地的使用权卖给了Parsley。

此后不久，他们筹集了更多资金，成立了双点公司，并开始抢购二叠纪中部地区的开采权。双点公司运营着7台钻井平台，截至今年第一季度，日产量有望达到8万桶。

曹海斌 摘译自 世界石油

原文如下：

Pioneer buys Permian’s DoublePoint Energy in $6.4 billion deal

Pioneer Natural Resources Co. is buying DoublePoint Energy LLC in a deal valued at $6.4 billion, less than three months after completing its purchase of fellow shale driller Parsley Energy Inc. as it expands in the U.S. Permian Basin.

The deal is comprised of approximately 27.2 million shares of Pioneer common stock, $1 billion of cash and assumption of approximately $900 million of debt and liabilities, according to a statement from Pioneer. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter. Bloomberg News reported earlier that the companies were close to an agreement.

Pioneer will increase its position to more than 1 million net acres through the deal, acquiring “primarily undrilled” new land.

“DoublePoint has amassed an impressive, high quality footprint in the Midland Basin,” Pioneer Chief Executive Officer Scott D. Sheffield said in the statement, referring to land within the larger Permian shale play. The deal will generate “significant value for our shareholders.”

The acquisition will be one of the largest in North America’s oil industry this year, and the first big transaction since the rapid run-up in oil prices to more than $60 a barrel over the past five months. DoublePoint’s investors include Apollo Global Management Inc., Quantum Energy Partners, Magnetar Capital and Blackstone Group Inc.’s GSO Capital Partners.

Sheffield is expanding in the Permian Basin in the aftermath of the worst oil-industry collapse in history. Crude prices have advanced 27% this year, more than erasing 2020’s slump, amid increasing optimism that economies will continue to reopen, sparking demand for gasoline, diesel and other fuels.

The deal is the latest in a series of transactions as U.S. drillers consolidate in an effort to survive the upheavals 冲版机caused by the pandemic. Pioneer in October agreed to buy Parsley Energy赤水 for $4.5 billion in stock, which followed a $9.7 takeover by ConocoPhillips of Concho Resources Inc.

“Pioneer is favorably positioned to emerge as one of the large, independent survivors of Permian consolidation,” Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Industry Analyst Vincent G. Piazza said in a note. The company’s recent deals have created “a formidable rival in the basin, with enviable scale and asset concentration.”

DoublePoint was founded by co-CEOs Cody Campbell and John Sellers, who mad本溪e their names flipping drilling leases in the Eagle Ford region of South Texas in the early days of the U.S. shale boom before moving on to the more lucrative Permian Basin. There they assembled large holdings with backing from private equity firms including Apollo. In 2017, the pair sold rights to about 70,000 acres to Parsley for $2.8 billion.

Shortly thereafter, they raised more money, formed DoublePoint and set to work snapping up drilling rights in the Permian’s Midland sub-region. DoublePoint was running seven drilling rigs and was on course to produce 80,000 barrels of oil a day as of the first quarter this year.?