{"id":10323,"date":"2021-05-13T09:06:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=10323"},"modified":"2021-05-13T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T10:44:31","slug":"tunisia-zenith-energy-completes-acquisition-of-the-el-bibane-and-robbana-concessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tunisia-zenith-energy-completes-acquisition-of-the-el-bibane-and-robbana-concessions\/","title":{"rendered":"TUNISIA: Zenith Energy Completes Acquisition of the El Bibane and Robbana Concessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bx\"><span class=\"bi\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10054\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Zenith Energy has<\/span><span class=\"bg\"> announced that\u00a0 Compagnie Du Desert Ltd<\/span><span class=\"bf\">, its fully owned subsidiary, has now\u00a0completed the acquisition<\/span><span class=\"bh\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"br\">of a 100 percent interest in the fully owned subsidiary of Candax Energy Limited\u00a0 in Barbados, Ecumed Petroleum Tunisia Ltd (EPT), which holds a 100% interest in the El Bibane and Robbana concessions in Tunisia.<\/span><span class=\"bd\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"by\"><strong><span class=\"bc\">Terms\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"bu\"><span class=\"bm\">Pursuant to the terms of the SPA,\u00a0CDD acquired 100% of the issued share capital of EPT for a nominal consideration of\u00a0US$100\u00a0payable at completion, as well as an additional\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"bc\">consideration of approximately\u00a0USD$200,000\u00a0in the form of assumption of debt payable by the end of\u00a0May 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bz\"><span class=\"bi\">Andrea Cattaneo, Chief Executive Officer of Zenith, commented:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bt\"><span class=\"br\">&#8220;We are very pleased to have now formally completed the acquisition of the El Bibane and Robbana concessions which enables Zenith to hold an enlarged portfolio with a daily production of crude oil, natural gas and condensate in\u00a0Tunisia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bt\"><span class=\"br\">The Company&#8217;s focus will now turn towards beginning to exploit the significant untapped hydrocarbons production potential of our newly acquired Tunisian assets. An update in this respect will be provided in due course once we have finalised our operational working programme.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zenith Energy has announced that\u00a0 Compagnie Du Desert Ltd, its fully owned subsidiary, has now\u00a0completed the acquisition\u00a0of a 100 percent interest in the fully owned subsidiary of Candax Energy Limited\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tunisia-zenith-energy-completes-acquisition-of-the-el-bibane-and-robbana-concessions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,7446,11],"tags":[9303,9302,9300,9301,2578,7518],"class_list":["post-10323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-north-africa","category-top-news","tag-candax","tag-ecumed-petroleum","tag-el-bibane","tag-robbana","tag-tunisia","tag-zenith-energy","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-2Gv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10102,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tunisia-zenith-energy-completes-acquisition-of-ezzaouia-concession\/","url_meta":{"origin":10323,"position":0},"title":"TUNISIA: Zenith Energy Completes acquisition of Ezzaouia Concession","author":"","date":"March 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Zenith Energy has announced that it\u00a0has now completed the acquisition of a 100 percent interest in the fully owned subsidiary of Candax Energy Limited\u00a0 in Barbados, Ecumed Petroleum Zarzis Ltd,\u00a0which holds a 45% interest in the Tunisian onshore Ezzaouia Concession. \u00a0Terms of the Acquisition\u00a0 Pursuant to the terms of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Countries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ECUMED-TUNISIA.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10053,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tunisia-zenith-energy-acquires-oil-production-development-asset\/","url_meta":{"origin":10323,"position":1},"title":"TUNISIA: Zenith Energy Acquires Oil Production &#038; 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