Regulatory News:
TOTAL (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT) announces the signature of an
agreement with Sinochem to sell TEPMA BV. This fully owned affiliate of
Total holds a working interest in the Cusiana field as well as a
participation in OAM and ODC pipelines in Colombia. Total share of
production of Cusiana is around 7,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
This transaction is subject to approval by the relevant authorities.
This sale follows a divestiture of a 5 % working interest in the Ocensa
pipeline to Petrominerales and of another 5 % to Cepsa in July 2011. The
combined value of the three transactions amounts to about US$ 1 billion.
"Disposing of these mature assets and positions in transportation
infrastructures is in line with our ongoing asset optimization strategy
and follows similar recent divestments such as the Gassled pipelines in
Norway and mature fields in Cameroon” said Olivier
de Langavant, Senior Vice President Strategy Business Development R&D at
Total’s Exploration-Production. "For Colombia, it will allow us to
focus our expertise on exploration assets with higher potential.”
Total will continue its exploration activities in Colombia on the
Niscota (50 %) and Mundo Nuevo (55 %) blocks. In 2009, a significant gas
condensate discovery was made in the southern part of Niscota by the
well Huron 1. The promising appreciation well Huron 2 is being drilled
with a further appreciation well Huron 3 to be drilled later in 2012.
Total still holds a 5.2 % share in the Ocensa pipeline.
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