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    Home » French group Total buys Maersk Oil in $7.5 billion deal

    French group Total buys Maersk Oil in $7.5 billion deal

    August 21, 2017
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    21 August 2017, Paris/Copenhagen — Total (TOTF.PA) is buying Maersk Oil in a $7.45 billion deal which the French oil major said would boost its earnings and cash flow, and bolster its dividend prospects.

    Danish company AP Moller Maersk (MAERSKb.CO) is selling its Maersk Oil division to Total to focus on other activities including its shipping business.

    Under the terms of the deal, A.P. Moller Maersk will get $4.95 billion in Total shares and Total will assume $2.5 billion of Maersk Oil’s debt.

    Maersk said it plans to return a “material portion of the value of the received Total S.A. shares” to shareholders in 2018 and 2019 in the form of extraordinary dividend, share buyback or distribution of shares in Total.

    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.

    The sale comes with Maersk in the midst of a major restructuring to concentrate on its transport and logistics businesses and separate its energy operations in the face of a drop in income.

    “This transaction is immediately accretive to both cash flow and earnings per share and delivers further growth over coming years,” said Total Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne in a statement.

    “It is in line with our announced strategy to take advantage of the current market conditions and of our stronger balance sheet to add new resources at attractive conditions,” he added.

    AP Moller Maersk shares were up 4.3 percent in early trading, while Total shares dipped 0.5 percent lower.

    Total said the acquisition was expected to result in synergies of more than $400 million a year.

    BP (BP.L) announced a string of investments in the last two months of 2016, including a $1 billion partnership with Dallas-based Kosmos Energy (KOS.N) in Mauritania and Senegal in West Africa, as well as acquisitions in Abu Dhabi and Azerbaijan.

    Total and Norway’s Statoil (STL.OL) have bought into Brazil’s lucrative sub-salt deepwater oil fields while ExxonMobil Corp (XOM.N) bought assets in Papua New Guinea to meet growing Asian demand for liquefied natural gas.

    In July, Total also said it was investing $3.5 billion over five years in Qatar’s offshore Al Shaheen oilfield.

    *Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing: Keith Weir – Reuters

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