Is this why Paramount bought Apache Corp’s Fox Creek assets? Koch Industries sells its tarsands properties to Paramount. Paramount/Trilogy next to declare bankruptcy, walk from clean up, with AER’s blessings?

Watch to understand what Paramount bought from Apache at Fox Creek, 16 Min. well spent:

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Koch Industries sells its oil-sands properties to Paramount by Jeffrey Jones, Aug 14, 2019, The Globe and Mail

The conglomerate run by the wealthy Koch brothers has sold its oil-sands assets to a unit of Paramount Resources Ltd. for an undisclosed sum following halted attempts to develop projects.

Koch Industries Inc., whose billionaire owners Charles and David Koch are well-known in the United States for supporting conservative causes, transferred five oil-sands leases to Cavalier Energy, which is the oil-sands unit of Calgary-based Paramount, according to the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER).

“The majority of Koch Oil Sands licences have been transferred to Paramount Resources Ltd. All of the remaining licences are for well sites and [they] have been abandoned, which means that they have been permanently sealed and taken out of service,” AER spokesman Shawn Roth said.

The companies applied for the asset transfers in late June and the AER approved them on Aug. 1, according the regulator’s website.

The deal, first reported by the Financial Post, represents the latest exit of a foreign-owned company from the Alberta oil sands. In April, Oklahoma-based Devon Energy Corp. sold its oil-sands business, including the producing Jackfish project, to Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. for $3.8-billion. Others that have divested include ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Norway’s Equinor.

Details of the deal were not known, and Paramount did not disclose the acquisition, suggesting the price was not large. Jim Riddell, chief executive officer of Paramount, and officials with Koch Industries were not immediately available for comment.

In 2014, Wichita, Kan.-based Koch had proposed an $800-million steam-driven oil-sands project called Muskwa, but scrapped the plan two years later, blaming “regulatory uncertainty” it said was caused by former Alberta premier Rachel Notley’s carbon-reduction policies.

In 2003, the company halted its $3.5-billion Fort Hills mining project, blaming Canada’s ratification of the Kyoto Accord. It subsequently sold its interest, and Suncor Energy Inc. and its partners have since built a project at the site for $17-billion.

In 2012, Koch put six properties, comprising 220,000 net acres, on the block, with total bitumen in place estimated at more than eight billion barrels. It did not receive the bids it had hoped and took the assets off the market.

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2017: Energy giant Apache Corp. sells off assets in Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C.

Apache Corp. says it has sold its assets in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan for close to $1 billion in a strategic exit from Canada.

The Houston-based oil and gas company said late Thursday that leaving Canada was part of its goal of streamlining its portfolio to focus on projects in the United States, United Kingdom and Egypt.

Apache said the sell-off will mean a significant reduction in asset retirement obligations and annual overhead costs, as well as improve the revenue and cash generated on the energy it produces. [Watch AER/Orphan Well Get-out-of-Jail-Free Club let Paramount (and Trilogy) walk in court-blessed bankruptcy and avoid cleaning up Apache’s and their profit-sucking and how many frac hits?]

It said the $125 million in spending planned for 2017 and 2018 in Canada would be redirected to other areas of its portfolio.

The company said its selling off its Canadian assets in a trio of deals worth about $927 million to Paramount Resources (TSX:POU), Cardinal Energy Ltd (TSX:CJ), and an undisclosed privately owned company, with the Cardinal deal already closed.

Paramount said Thursday that along with buying Apache assets in Alberta and B.C. for about $460-million, it was also merging with Trilogy Energy Corp (TSX:TET) in an all-share deal.

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