据《商业时报》9月14日悉尼报道,石油搜寻公司拒绝了伍德赛德石油公司80亿美元的收购报价,并称这一提案低估了公司在巴布亚新几内亚的LNG扩张计划。
石油搜寻公司主席里克·李在周一召开的会议上表示:“我们在与所有大股东协商时,得到的反馈都很明确,那就是应当拒绝这一提案。”
桑福德伯恩斯坦公司与瑞银集团也表示,伍德赛德公司以每股置换4股石油搜寻公司的股票,此举意味着14%的溢价,出价过低因此难以赢得投资者的支持。“无论从哪方面分析,提案都大大低估了石油搜寻公司,我们肯定不会对此多做考虑。”
上周发出的提案将石油搜寻公司估价116.5亿澳大利亚元,若实施将成为亚洲最大能源收购案。
詹乐乾 摘译自Business Times,2015-9-15
原文如下:
Oil Search rejects Woodside's US$8b takeover bid as too low
[SYDNEY] Oil Search Ltd rejected Woodside Petroleum Ltd's US$8 billion takeover bid, saying the proposal undervalues the company's liquefied natural gas expansion plans in Papua New Guinea.
"The feedback we got from all the major shareholders we consulted with confirmed that the proposal was one that should be rejected," Oil Search Chairman Rick Lee said on a conference call Monday.
"The proposal on whatever basis you apply was significantly undervaluing Oil Search and certainly not one that encouraged us to consider it further." Woodside's bid of one share for every four Oil Search shares, which implied a 14 per cent premium, was too low to win investors' support, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co and UBS Group AG.
The offer last week valued Oil Search at A$11.65 billion and would have been the biggest energy takeover in Asia.