Africa Oil Corp. concluded its acquisition – worth $519.5Million – for a 50% ownership interest in Petrobras Oil and Gas BV (POGBV) in January 2020.
Today, seven and half months later, it reports it has received total dividends amount of $137.5Million since the closing of the Prime acquisition on 14 January 2020.
POGBV’s primary assets are an indirect 8% interest in oil mining lease (OML) 127, operated by Chevron, containing the Agbami Field, and 16% interest in OML 130, operated by TOTAL and contains the Akpo and Egina Fields, offshore Nigeria.
The Toronto listed minnow says it has received four dividends from Prime Oil and Gas B.V. (Prime) since the January 2020 purchase. Prime is a company that holds interests in deepwater Nigeria production and development assets.
On August 31, Africa Oil Corp. reported that Prime has distributed the fourth dividend, “a $50Million dividend with a net payment to Africa Oil of $25Million related to its 50% interest”.
The Company has applied $17.7Million of this dividend to pay down the BTG term loan, reducing the outstanding balance to $176.9Million.
Africa Oil Corp. is a Canadian oil and gas company with producing and development assets in deepwater Nigeria; development assets in Kenya; and an exploration/appraisal portfolio in Africa and Guyana. The Company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and on Nasdaq Stockholm under the symbol “AOI”.
