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Suncor Makes Play For Canadian Oil Sands; Exxon, Sinopec
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Suncor Energy Inc. has announced that it has formally commenced an unsolicited offer to Canadian Oil Sands Limited shareholders to acquire all of the outstanding shares of COS for total consideration of approximately $4.3 billion.
Under the terms of the Offer, each COS shareholder will receive consideration of 0.25 of a Suncor share per COS share. Including COS' estimated outstanding net debt of $2.3 billion as at June 30, 2015, the total transaction value is approximately $6.6 billion.
The offer, if accepted would give Suncor an approximately 48.74% interest in the Syncrude Oil Sands development project:
Other deep pocket partners could outbid Suncor for the assets. Exxon & Sinopec are two companies that come to mind with good balance sheet. If Exxon/Imperial were to make a play, it…
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