Shell
last year put up for sale its 30 percent shares in four oil blocks in the Niger
Delta.
Royal
Dutch Shell has sold some of four oil fields up for grabs in Nigeria, it said
on Wednesday, as the oil and gas company pushes ahead with global asset sales
to cut costs.
Shell
last year put up for sale its 30 percent shares in four oil blocks in the Niger
Delta — Oil Mining Licence (OML) 18, 24, 25, 29 — as well as a key pipeline,
the Nembe Creek Trunk Line.
“We
have signed sales & purchase agreements for some of the Oil Mining Leases,
but not all that we are seeking to divest,” a Shell spokesman said.
No
details were available on the
value of the deals signed, nor when the full
process will be completed.
France’s
Total and Italy’s Eni are also set to raise revenue from the sale of their 10
percent and 5 percent shares in the assets. The Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) owns the remaining 55 percent.
The
Financial Times on Wednesday reported that Shell is close to selling the assets
for about $5 billion to domestic buyers.
In
March, Reuters reported that Nigerian firms Taleveras and Aiteo made the
highest bid of $2.85 billion for the biggest of the four oil fields, OML 29.
Shell,
along with many other oil majors, is undergoing a broad process of asset sales
across the world in an effort to cut costs and boost profits.
Other
companies, including Total, Eni, Chevron and ConocoPhillips have sought to pull
out of the oil-rich West African country which has been plagued by oil theft.
Reuters
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