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Oxidantal petroleum will sell the arm of its chemicals to oxycam Warren BuffettBerkshire Hathaway for $ 9.7 billion, the company said on Thursday, marking its biggest partition to reduce the loan after years of expensive acquisitions.
However, US oil and gas producer shares fell over 6% in morning trading. Roth MKM analysts stated that oxycam sales in a note could weigh on free cash flow increase in the coming years, as the unit was expected to contribute significantly to expansion. Scotiabank analyst Paul Cheng said the price of the transaction looked low as he had earlier estimated the price of the division by $ 12 billion.
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Oxichem, which produces chemicals used to treat swimming pools and vinyl products used for water supply piping and medical supply, produces a joint revenue of $ 2.42 billion in the first two quarters of this year.
If the deal closes, it will be the largest purchase for Berkshire since the purchase of $ 11.6 billion of the insurance firm Eleghani Corporation in 2022, and expand your chemical portfolio beyond lubrizole.
Berkshire is the largest shareholder of Oxidantal and began to gain a stake in the company in February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Partition highlights close relationships between the two. At a 2019 meeting with Buffett, Oxidantl CEO Vicky Holub earned an investment of $ 10 billion, allowing him to make a proposal for oil manufacturer Petroleum, which was excluding the rival Chevron to secure the richest. Shell oilfields in Texas.
But the purchase of $ 55 billion of Anadarko left unhappy with debt. The burden was increased after the company discontinued the $ 12 billion acquisition of American shell oil manufacturer Craunrock, privately organized by the company last year.
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To reduce its massive debt loads, which was $ 23.34 billion by the end of June, in recent years the oxidantle has been continuously dividing the assets.
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The company revealed in August $ 950 million Additional division Since the beginning of the second quarter, $ 370 million of which had already been closed, and it paid a $ 3 billion debt.
Oxidental said on Thursday he would use an income of $ 6.5 billion to reduce the loan, which brings a total major loan below a $ 15 billion target after the Crowncock Deal.
The latest deal, compared to closing in the fourth quarter, also indicates that oxidantl is again on its oil and gas business, which created 75% of its total earnings last year.
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CEO Holub said that oxichem sales would allow “unlock 20-plus years of low-cost resource runways” in oil and gas.
