Origin Energy, the Australian upstream supplier to the Australia-Pacific LNG export plant in Queensland facing a A$18.4 billion (US$12.3 billion) buyout offer from a two-firm consortium led by Canada's Brookfield Asset Management, has agreed to extend the consortium’s “exclusivity” to the 16th of January 2023.
Origin Energy, the Australian upstream supplier to the Australia-Pacific LNG export plant in Queensland, saw its shares up 35 percent higher on November 14 as investors considered Origin’s backing for an A$18.4 billion (US$12.3 billion) buyout offer from a two-firm consortium led by Canada's Brookfield Asset Management.
Origin Energy, the Australian upstream supplier to the Australia-Pacific LNG export plant in Queensland, said it expected a sizeable increase in underlying earnings from its utilities business, though signalled possible lower coal-seam-gas output affecting APLNG because of weather issues.
Origin Energy, the Australian utility, reported quarterly revenue of A$633.7 (US$477M) from the Australia-Pacific LNG plant where it has a 37.5 percent share, part of which will be sold to EIG Global Energy Partners, an institutional investor in the sector.
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, the largest Chinese owner of oil refineries and with growing LNG volumes to match its contracted Australian supplies, reported a tumble in net profits of almost 46 percent in the year to date because of the double challenges in the energy market.
Origin Energy, the Australian utility and shareholder with China’s Sinopec and ConocoPhillips in the Australia-Pacific LNG plant in Queensland, will log asset impairments of about US$840 million, including on a US contract with Cameron LNG in Louisiana.