Our quarterly review of upstream oil and gas M&A in Australasia.
M&A - Quarterly - Australasia
(Originally published on January 7, 2025) Q4 has seen four new deals announced in Australasia, all of which were in Australia. The transaction value for these four deals was about US $1,140 million. The totals for 2024 are nineteen deals, with a total deal value of about US $2,
M&A - Quarterly - Australasia
(Originally published on October 1, 2024) Q3 has seen five new deals (one of which was later cancelled) announced in Australasia, three in Australia and two in Timor-Leste. The transaction value for these five deals was about US $12.3 million. Excluding the cancelled deal, we have four deal, with
M&A - Quarterly - Australasia
(Originally published on July 1, 2024) Q2 has seen six new deals announced in Australasia, four in Australia and two in Papua New Guinea. The transaction value of this one deal was about US $168 million. The running totals for 2024 (H1) are thirteen deals, with a total deal value
M&A - Quarterly - Australasia
(Originally published on April 1, 2024) It has been a busy Q1 in Australasia, with seven new deals announced in the quarter. However, the biggest news was about a potential deal being cancelled: * In early December 2023, Woodside Energy and Santos confirmed that they were in discussions about a potential
M&A - Quarterly - Australasia
(Originally published on January 2, 2024) It had been a relatively quiet Q4 in Australasia until early December when two big pieces of news dropped. * The first saw Origin Energy shareholders vote to reject a takeover offer from a consortium led by Brookfield asset partners and EIG. Together with a
M&A - Quarterly - Australasia
(Originally published on October 2, 2023) Q3 has seen five deals, four in Australia and one in PNG. A transaction value was announced for three of these deals, with a total deal value for these three deals of almost US $1.7 billion. Deals announced in Q3 The five deals
M&A - Quarterly - Australasia
(Originally published on July 2, 2023) After a Q1 that saw more action than the cast of an Expendables movie, Q2 has been much more aligned with the underlying trend with four asset deals in the region. Two in Australia, one in New Zealand and one in PNG. A transaction
M&A - Quarterly - Australasia
(Originally published on April 3, 2023) Q1 had been looking pretty quiet for Australasia, with focus firmly on the power struggle for the discoveries in the Perth Basin. However, the final week of the quarter saw a binding deal signed for the much-discussed takeover of Origin by Brookfield asset management
M&A - Quarterly - Australasia
2022 – A year of two halves (Originally published on December 30, 2022) Oil and Gas related M&A transaction value decreased for both asset and corporate related transactions in 2022 vs 2021. However, there was plenty of activity, particularly in the second half of the year, with major transactions