RE: Takeover appeal22 Jun 2020 11:37
Zengas, Delonex is an interesting one. They postponed their Chad drilling plans when the oil price crashed, and there was discussion of Warburg Pincus getting out of upstream E&P completely in that time of mass panic. However with the Delonex CEO now gone to Tullow there is a theory that (with the oil price also having recovered a bit) Delonex/WP might now come in for Tullow's Kenyan assets, as there presumably a deal to be done given TLW's situation (and their recent cut-price exit from Uganda, sold to Total). In my view that is more likely than a Niger deal for Delonex/WP, allied to their clear lack of interest in Chad for now. However that is not to say that some ex-Tullow boys are not still sniffing around SAVE, whether that is Boru or T5 Oil & Gas (also ex Tullow execs)…