Canada’s Athabasca Oil Corp said it had closed the sale of its 40% interest in the Dover oil sands project to a unit of PetroChina Co Ltd for $1.18 billion.
Athabasca said it received $600 million in cash and $584 million in three interest-bearing promissory notes from the unit, Phoenix Energy Holdings Ltd.
It was not immediately clear if the figure was in Canadian or U.S. dollars.
“Closing of the Dover transaction is an important milestone for Athabasca and marks the beginning of a new chapter for our company,” said Sveinung Svarte, Athabasca’s president and CEO, in a statement. “We can now finalise our business strategy which will be focused on profitable production and reserve growth, cash flow growth, cost discipline and balance sheet flexibility.”
More to come…
© Thomson Reuters 2014, with files from Financial Post staff
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