Essel Group Middle East, has signed an agreement for acquiring 60 per cent participating interest in the portfolio of African oil and gas exploration projects owned by Simba Energy Inc, a Canadian publicly traded oil and gas company. <\/p>\n
The Essel Group ME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Essel Group India. “Essel Group (Middle East) is pursuing growth by securing strategic resource investments across the globe. It is diversifying into the hydrocarbon sector and this agreement is a significant step towards advancing this strategic initiative,” said a company statement issued Wednesday. The initial agreement lays the foundation for Essel Group ME to invest in Simba\u2019s portfolio of existing African exploration projects on a farm-in basis. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur strategy of securing a position in the African resources base as instrumental in supporting our future growth plans. Having reviewed the available data on Simba\u2019s blocks along with the surrounding exploration and production success by other major groups, we see a highly undervalued opportunity with strong potential. We did not want to pass up on this opportunity in what is fast becoming a very competitive environment,\u201d said Gagan Goel, Managing Director, Essel Group Middle East.<\/p>\n
Additionally, to enhance Essel Group ME\u2019s operation, the firm is prepared to invest in other minerals in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Essel Group Middle East, has signed an agreement for acquiring 60 per cent participating interest in the portfolio of African oil and gas exploration projects owned by Simba Energy Inc, a Canadian publicly traded oil and gas company. The Essel Group ME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Essel Group India. “Essel Group (Middle East) is pursuing growth by securing strategic resource investments across the globe. It is diversifying into the hydrocarbon sector and this agreement is a significant step towards advancing this strategic initiative,” said a company statement issued Wednesday. The initial agreement lays the foundation for Essel Group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}