Apollo Acquires Stake in bp’s Trans Adriatic Pipeline, Exploring Further Energy Collaboration

Apollo Acquires Stake in bp’s Trans Adriatic Pipeline, Exploring Further Energy Collaboration

(IN BRIEF) Apollo Global Management has purchased a non-controlling stake in bp Pipelines TAP Limited, which holds bp’s 20% share in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), for approximately $1 billion. While bp remains the controlling shareholder, this partnership allows bp to unlock capital for future investments. TAP is a key infrastructure asset that transports natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe. Both companies are also exploring potential collaborations on gas and low-carbon energy projects, supporting their strategic goals in the energy transition. The deal is expected to close by Q4 2024.

(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 16-Sep-2024 — /EuropaWire/ —  bp (LON: BP), a British multinational oil and gas company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Apollo Global Management, allowing Apollo to acquire a non-controlling stake in bp Pipelines TAP Limited, the entity holding bp’s 20% share in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP). The $1 billion transaction grants Apollo exposure to a key energy infrastructure asset, while bp remains the controlling shareholder. TAP plays a crucial role in European energy security by transporting natural gas from the Shah Deniz gas field in Azerbaijan to markets in Europe, including Greece and Italy.

This collaboration allows bp to unlock near-term capital, aligning with its strategy to reallocate resources for future investments. Beyond the TAP deal, bp and Apollo are exploring broader cooperation on gas and low-carbon energy projects, potentially expanding their partnership to support the global energy transition.

William Lin, EVP of gas and low-carbon energy at bp, emphasized the significance of the partnership, stating that it brings in a new investor without reducing bp’s strategic role in the asset. Skardon Baker and Leslie Mapondera, partners at Apollo, highlighted the long-term benefits of the transaction for investors and expressed optimism about future strategic opportunities in sustainable energy. The deal is expected to close by Q4 2024, pending regulatory approvals.

About Apollo

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of June 30, 2024, Apollo had approximately $696 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.

Further information

Media contact:

bp press office, London: +44 (0) 20 7496 4076, bppress@bp.com

Cautionary statement

In order to utilize the ‘safe harbor’ provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the ‘PSLRA’) and the general doctrine of cautionary statements, bp is providing the following cautionary statement.This document contains certain forecasts, projections, forward-looking statements and expectations in relation to the completion of the transaction described, including the outcome and timing of regulatory and partner approvals – that is, statements related to future, not past events and circumstances – with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and businesses of bp and certain of the plans and objectives of bp with respect to these items. These statements are generally, but not always, identified by the use of words such as ‘will’, ‘expects’, ‘is expected to’, ‘targets’, ‘aims’, ‘should’, ‘may’, ‘objective’, ‘is likely to’, ‘intends’, ‘believes’, ‘anticipates’, ‘plans’, ‘we see’ or similar expressions. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will or may occur in the future and are outside the control of bp. Actual results or outcomes, may differ materially from those expressed in such statements, depending on a variety of factors, including the risk factors discussed under “Risk factors” in bp’s most recent Annual Report and Form 20-F as filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and in any of our more recent public reports.

Our most recent Annual Report and Form 20-F and other period filings are available on our website at www.bp.com, or can be obtained from the SEC by calling 1-800-SEC-0330 or on its website at www.sec.gov.

SOURCE: BP p.l.c.

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