据原油新闻7月12日消息称，Contango石油天然气公司周四透露，该公司将购买康菲石油公司拥有的所有怀俄明州天然气资产。此次收购正值康菲石油出售部分油气资产，Contango计划继续扩大其在怀俄明州的业务之际。
这笔价值6700万美元的交易将把风河盆地约4460亿立方英尺的已探明、已开发和生产储量转移给总部位于休斯顿的石油天然气公司Contango。预计该协议将在未来几个月内最终敲定。
Contango公司首席执行官Wilkie S. Colyer, Jr说:“我们的商业模式主要围绕这些资产，这些资产的开采时间较长，产量下降速度较慢，可预预性较好，能够产生大量的现金流，但不存在钻井过程中所存在的大量再投资风险。”
此次出售包括美国最大的石油和天然气生产商之一康菲公司拥有的风河盆地的所有资产。
公司发言人在给 Star-Tribune 的电子邮件中写道：“康菲石油在风河盆地拥有强大的地位，但这些资产在吸引我们投资组合中的资本方面没有竞争力。”
Contango 购买的怀俄明州油井的净产量约为每天 7800 万立方英尺天然气当量，并且在未来五年内，预计每年下降5%的比率相对较低。Colyer说，这些因素使得这次收购对公司来说是一个风险较低的投资。
他说：“在某些情况下，你购买的油井已经生产了 20 到 30 年，但这些油井的寿命通常超过 50 年。所以你购买的这些资产，不是在其生产能力的顶峰，而是在你仍然可以从这些资产中产生大量现金流的阶段。”
曹海斌 摘译自 原油新闻
原文如下：
Contango to Purchase All ConocoPhillips Natural Gas Assets in Wyoming
Contango Oil & Gas will purchase all Wyoming natural gas assets owned by ConocoPhillips, the company revealed Thursday. The acquisition comes as ConocoPhillips moves to sell off some of its oil and gas assets and Contango looks to continue expanding its operations in Wyoming.
The $67 million deal will transfer approximately 446 billion cubic feet equivalent of proved, developed and producing reserves in the Wind River Basin to Contango, a Houston-based oil and gas company. It’s expected to be finalized in the next few months.
“Our business model is really centered around these types of assets that are later in life and lower decline, better predictability, that generate a good amount of cash flow, but without a lot of the reinvestment risk that’s inherent in drilling,” said Contango CEO Wilkie S. Colyer, Jr.
The sale includes all assets in the Wind River Basin owned by ConocoPhillips, align="justify"> “ConocoPhillips has a strong position in the Wind River Basin, but the assets are not competitive in attracting capital in our portfolio,” a company spokesperson wrote in an email to the Star-Tribune.
The Wyoming wells purchased by Contango have a net production rate of about 78 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day, and have a relatively low expected decline rate of 5% per year over the next five years — factors Colyer said make the acquisition a lower-risk investment for the company.
“You’re buying wells that have been producing for, in some cases, 20 to 30 years, but these things have, typically, well over 50-year lives,” he said. “So you’re buying this, certainly not at the peak of its productive capacity, but at a stage where there’s still a substantial amount of cash flow that you’re generating off the assets.”