Woodside4億美元收購BHP澳大利亞西岸天然氣資產

Australian energy major Woodside has agreed to buy half of BHP Billiton’s Scarborough area assets in the Carnarvon Basin, located offshore Western Australia for $400mn.On September 5, Woodside said the acquisition includes a 25% interest in WA-1-R and a 50% interest in WA-62-R, which together contain the Scarborough gas field. Woodside will also acquire a 50% interest in WA-61-R and WA-63-R which contain the Jupiter and Thebe gas fields.Woodside will operate WA-61-R, WA-62-R and WA-63-R. ExxonMobil is the operator of WA-1-R.Woodside will pay BHP Billiton $250mn on completion of the transaction and a contingent payment of $150mn upon a positive final investment decision to develop the Scarborough field. The effective date of the transaction is July 1, 2016.BHP has had a really bad year. It reported its first full year loss since BHP and Billiton merged about decade and half ago.