BP To Buy US Shale Assets From BHP for $105 Billion

摘要

BP PLC has agreed to acquire almost allof BHP Billiton Ltd.’s US unconventionalbusiness for $10.5 billion.The deal calls for BP American Production Co. to buy 100% of the issuedshare capital of BHP’s wholly-ownedPetrohawk Energy Corp., which owns47〇,〇〇〇 net acres in the liquids-richregions of the Permian Basin and EagleFord Shale of Texas and in the Haynesville Shale of Texas and Louisiana.