Royal Dutch Shell said on Friday it had completed the sale of its 30 percent stake in a Nigerian oil field for $737 million as the Anglo-Dutch oil major nears the completion of a strategic asset review in the West African country.
Oil and Mining Lease (OML) 18 and "related facilities in the Eastern Niger Delta" were sold to Eroton Exploration & Production Company Limited.
Eroton is a a special purpose company owned directly or indirectly by a consortium. Eroton also acquired French oil major Total's 10 percent stake and Italy's Eni's 5 percent stake in OML 18, giving it a total 45 percent holding, Shell said in a statement. The remaining 55% is owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. The total purchase price for the interest was US$1.1 billion, not including acquisition costs. All approvals required for the completion of the acquisition of OML 18 have been received from the relevant authorities of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
OML 18 covers an area of 1,035 square kilometers and includes the Alakiri, Awoba, Cawthorne Channel, Krakama, and Buguma Creek fields and related facilities. The Awoba field straddles into Oil Mining Lease 24. The acquired infrastructure includes flow stations together with associated gas infrastructure plus oil and gas pipelines within the OML 18 license area. According to SPDC, the assigned fields produced an average of approximately 14,000 gross barrels of oil equivalent per day of oil, condensate and gas during 2014.
Crude oil production from OML 18 is exported through the Bonny Crude Oil Terminal via the Nembe Creek Trunkline. Gas production from OML 18 is delivered to various power, industrial and commercial customers via the Nigeria Gas Company's pipeline.
Shell announced last October that it had signed sales agreements for all five Nigerian oil assets it put up for sale following a 2013 review of its business in Nigeria.
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