End of suspense. The British oil giant has reached an agreement on Tuesday with U.S. rival Apache to sell him for $ 7 billion in assets. In a statement, it said that this sale is "all production activities of oil and gas, land and infrastructure BP" in West Texas and New Mexico, and in the desert west of Egypt. In Canada, it sells its BP exploration and production of natural gas in western Alberta and British Columbia. A total of 385 million barrels of oil equivalent.
These assets accounted for in the first half total daily production of 28,000 barrels per day of liquid hydrocarbon and more than 9 million cubic meters of gas.
Moreover, a spokesman announced Tuesday that the oil company would lay off some activities within Pakistan and Vietnam.These activities mainly concern the production of natural gas. If the amount is secret, BP said that the fields had produced Pakistan last year only 4.89 million cubic meters of gas in the country, a mere 2% of its total gas production. Activities include two Vietnamese gas fields, pipelines and an electricity generation plant.
These operations are part of the creation of a fund of 20 billion dollars to reimburse the victims of the spill. BP's objective is to sell 10 billion dollars in assets.The British group said Monday that it had already disbursed $ 3.95 billion so far in miscellaneous expenses, including compensation already paid free credit report.
David Cameron "understands the anger"
The "case" BP is in any case more than ever become a political issue, potential source of diplomatic tensions between the United States and Great Britain.Following a head to head with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, tried to calm things down, saying that included "completely anger that exists across the U.S. "against BP and it was necessary for him" BP mouth leak, clean the area and pays just compensation. "
"BP is a major undertaking for both the British economy and for the U.S. economy thousands of jobs depend on BP on both sides of the Atlantic. So in the interest of both countries that the group remains strong and stable future, "said David Cameron.
In a study received Tuesday, ratings agency Moody's estimates that if the spill had to stop short term, it would get at least 1.2 billion dollars in lost business and loss of 17,000 jobs in the region Gulf by the end of the year."Under a more pessimistic scenario in which the oil spill would continue until December, and the moratorium decided by Obama on drilling in deep waters until the end of the year, 7.4 billion dollars of activity would be lost and more than 100,000 jobs, "concludes the study.
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