BP Group
Auf jeden Fall sieht es heute super aus. Warum auch immer. Im wo-board wird schon über eine Dividendenanhebung spekuliert.
die mehrheit der AAR Milliardäre wollte ja von Rosneft und BP aufbezahlt werden und jetzt wo das Angebot vom Tisch ist wollen die nochmal darüber verhandeln....
- die haben noch nicht begriffen dass der zug abgefahren ist...
By GUY CHAZAN And GREGORY L. WHITE
After a brief lull, BP PLC's billionaire Russian partners have recommenced legal proceedings against the U.K. oil giant, asking an arbitration panel to rule on whether BP breached their shareholder agreement when it pursued an alliance with Russia's state-owned oil company earlier this year.
The move is the first stage of a process designed to win billions of dollars in compensation from BP for the alleged damage done to the joint venture, TNK-BP Ltd., a person close to the Russian shareholders said. BP has in the past argued that because the tie-up with OAO Rosneft never materialized, no damage was done to TNK-BP.
Last January, BP struck a landmark deal with Russia's Rosneft that would have seen the two companies swap shares in each other and jointly explore for oil in the Russian Arctic, an area long off limits to foreign oil firms.
But the alliance was opposed by BP's partners in TNK-BP, a group of Soviet-born billionaires whose holding company is known as AAR. They said it violated the exclusivity provisions of their shareholder agreement and won an injunction to block it.
Last May, the three parties were close to a deal under which BP and Rosneft would have bought out AAR's stake in TNK-BP for more than $32 billion in cash and stock. But the transaction collapsed at the last minute over legal disagreements. BP and AAR both acknowledge that talks on a buyout are unlikely to be revived.
The person close to the Russian shareholders said they had asked the Stockholm tribunal that adjudicates commercial disputes between BP and AAR to hear AAR's complaint that the Rosneft deal violated the TNK-BP shareholder agreement. The person said that if the panel finds in the Russian partners' favor, they will seek to persuade the TNK-BP board to sue BP for damages.
A BP spokesman declined to comment, saying the Stockholm dispute-resolution process was "confidential."
AAR is alleging that BP's abortive alliance with Rosneft damaged TNK-BP in a number of ways. First, it says, TNK-BP could itself have taken part in the Arctic alliance in BP's place: the Russian partners estimate this "missed opportunity" to have been worth around $4 billion. Secondly, AAR says the collapse of the deal damaged TNK-BP's relationship with Rosneft and the Russian government, making it harder for the company to access export routes and procure oil licenses.
The person close to the Russian shareholders said they would be willing to drop their legal case in Stockholm "if BP admitted that its breach of the shareholder agreement had caused significant damage to TNK-BP and offered to compensate the company."
"We would rather not go to the tribunal and prefer to resolve this matter amicably," the person said.
A person close to BP said AAR's request to the Stockholm tribunal was a pressure tactic to try to bring BP back to the negotiating table and revive the BP-Rosneft buyout of AAR.
The BP spokesman said the offer to buy out AAR was "no longer on the table." "[AAR] turned down good offers, which we believe would have benefited them," he said. "The buyout transaction, which really could have been a great deal for [AAR], Russia, BP and its shareholders, is gone for everyone, and we have to move on."
Quelle:
http://online.wsj.com/article/...3111904233404576458241367459356.html
-ý AAR hat sich selbst ins Knie geschossen....
so mal aus dem bauch raus....hoffentlich tut es richtig weh. ich mag von dem russen-deal echt nix mehr hoeren. hat uns alle genug nerven (und geld?) gekostet. was jammern sie jetzt rum. hoffentlich ist es vom tisch....und irgendwie....schadenfreude ist manchmal die schoenste freude. :P
Wahrscheinlich wird es aber am Kaufpreis scheitern. Ich denke mal, die Sache ist bei BP nicht endgültig vom Tisch.
http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/industrie/...-verkuemmern/60082191.html
Wenn dafür kein Geld da ist, dann wirds auch nichts mit einem Deal in Russland, geschweige denn gibts da ne Chance auf eine Dividendenerhöhung. Für mich als Anleger sind das weniger gute Aussichten, denn es zählen nunmal nur die Kurssteigerungen und die Div.
Von BP Seite wohl in Ordnung, denn alles, was kein Geld bringt wird geschlossen oder verkauft. Fürs Ansehen aber nicht von Vorteil.
heißt in meinen Ohren, das nur Geld für die Dinge übrig ist, die man als richtig und wichtig erachtet.
Von den nackten Zahlen her, ist der Schritt logisch das BP seine Solarsparte hier nahezu aufgibt. Wenn auch in der Zukunft kein Gewinn dabei rausspringt, macht es keinen Sinn dieses Modell weiterzutreiben. Die Begrüdnugen sind schlüssig (Kostendruck Module etc).
Was ich hier nicht beurteilen kann ist, ob dieser Schritt nun heißt, komplett aus grüner Energie auszusteigen oder ob BP nur nach einer anderen Möglichkeit sucht, eventuell Windkraft oder so. Müssen wir mal beobachten.
###Der britische Ölkonzern stellt den Vertrieb von Solarmodulen zum Jahresende komplett ein, der bislang mehr als vier Fünftel der Umsätze der Solarsparte ausmachte. "In Zukunft konzentriert sich BP Solar weltweit ausschließlich auf Aktivitäten in der Projektentwicklung"###
Genau so würde ich es auch machen - wenn wir ehlich sind hat Solar keine sonnige Zukunft - jedenfalls nicht die Platten ... viel zu teuer, viel zu wenig Wirkung - in der Projektentwicklung ist noch was zu verdienen, aber nicht bei der Herstellung der Platten -> etwas das vor 50 Jahren erfunden wurde und bis heute noch bezuschusst werden muss wird auch in Zukunft kaum konkurrenzfähig sein.
Ich spreche jetzt nur von den leidigen Platten die hauptsächlich in unseren Breitengraden überall draufgepflastert werden - Sonnenwärmekraftwerke usw finde ich zB sehr interessant - die werden wenigstens da gebaut wo die Sonne auch scheint.
Sehr interessant, Dudley bekommt Druck von den Investoren :D
BP investors turn up heat on CEO Dudley:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/...ew-idUSTRE76L13820110722
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Die Inder wollen heute den RIL-BP Deal genehmigen:
Cabinet nod to $7.2 billion RIL-BP deal likely today
http://www.ndtv.com/article/profit/...ril-bp-deal-likely-today-165638
zu dem Thema mit TNK-BP:
BP’s Russian Troubles Rumble On:
http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2011/07/21/...le-on/?mod=google_news_blog
Das BP sich komplett aus den alternativen Energien zurückzieht, halte ich für unwahrscheinlich, denn irgendwann is' mit Öl Essig... :-)
MfG PB
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Fitch Ratings said Friday it affirmed BP PLC's (BP.LN) credit rating at 'A' and its long-term outlook as 'stable,' and said it assumes the U.K. energy giant will continue to meet all ongoing financial obligations related to the Gulf Of Mexico oil spill.
"The rating affirmation largely reflects BP's renewed focus on upstream exploration, development and production," said Fitch. It also pointed to the company's ongoing $30 billion asset sale program and said it anticipates that project start-ups in Africa, Russia and the North Sea in 2012 or 2013 could compensate for divested upstream production.
However, Fitch warned it could revise down its rating for the company if BP were to be found grossly liable for the Deepwater Horizon accident and oil spill when the matter goes to trial next year.
"Negative rating action is possible if a U.S. court rules in 2012 that BP is responsible for additional near-term legal liabilities beyond those currently assumed by Fitch that result in material cash outflow beyond BP's existing charges against income," said Fitch.
Quelle:
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/...mp;title=fitch-affirms-bp-ratingoutlook
Woher Bloomberg das hat steht da nicht, aber wenn Bloomberg das schreibt, dann gibts morgen wohl doch keine Div erhöhung :D
Robert Dudley could unlock $100 billion for BP Plc investors by following ConocoPhillips and splitting up Europe’s second-biggest oil producer.
BP, trying to recover from last year’s Gulf of Mexico disaster, has lagged behind its three larger rivals this year, rising 1 percent in London even as oil peaked at $127 a barrel. Conoco’s decision to split its refinery arm from its exploration and production business led analysts at banks including UBS AG, Bank of America and JPMorgan Cazenove to recommend BP look at a similar move.
Chief Executive Officer Dudley’s efforts to revive BP have been undermined by a failed exploration deal with Russia’s OAO Rosneft and the prospect of billions of dollars of fines from the spill. JPMorgan Cazenove said last week BP’s assets are worth about about 800 pence a share, equal to a total market value of about $248 billion. The company currently trades at about $147 billion.
“On a sum of the parts basis, BP is ludicrously undervalued,” said JO Hambro Capital Management Group Ltd.’s Clive Beagles, who helps manage 3.8 billion pounds ($6.2 billion) of securities including more than 100 million pounds of BP shares. “Perhaps that means they need to take as radical a route as ConocoPhillips, or articulate a better strategy.”
The company’s 40 percent discount to the total value of its assets compares with an industry average of 27 percent, JPMorgan Cazenove analyst Fred Lucas said.
Marathon Gains
ConocoPhillips’s spinoff plan follows a similar move by Marathon Oil Corp. Shares in Houston-based Marathon have gained 23 percent since it announced its split on Jan. 13 even as a new refining company with a market value of $14.4 billion was created.
BP shares are down 28 percent since the Macondo oil spill, compared with a 13 percent gain for shares of larger rival Royal Dutch Shell Plc over the same period.
BP rose 0.5 percent to 472.5 pence as of 8:50 a.m. in London. Shell dropped as much as 0.6 percent.
BP spokesman Robert Wine said the company has no plans to split up its refining and marketing operations, known as downstream, and the so-called upstream business of exploration.
“The principle of a split deserves a good airing,” said Ivor Pether, a fund manager at Royal London Asset Management, who has about 300 million pounds invested in BP. “The U.S. government would block any such proposal while Macondo liabilities are outstanding, but there are enough notes out there on the possibility to merit a considered response.”
Profit Forecasts
BP may report a profit of $6 billion for the second quarter on July 26 after a record loss a year earlier, a Bloomberg News survey of 10 analysts shows. Two days later, Shell will probably say profit was $6.6 billion for the period, compared with $4.5 billion in the second quarter of 2010.
“Conoco spinning out downstream activities keeps the debate going about the benefits of integration,” said Tim Mann, a fund manager at Legal & General Group Plc, the second-largest shareholder of BP and Shell. “For Shell there will be a lot of focus on project delivery, and investors will be interested in any signals on the dividend now a major investment phase is completing.”
Shell sold its first cargo from the Pearl gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar in June. The project, the product of a $19 billion investment, will reach full capacity next year.
Dividend Outlook
Shell will raise its dividend to 46 cents a share from 42 cents a share over the next two years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg based in part on options trading. BP will maintain its dividend at 7 cents a share, half the pre-spill level, until at least 2013.
BP has spent more than a decade paring down its refining arm because of overcapacity in Europe and the U.S. BP plants can process about 2.7 million barrels of crude a day, down from 3.2 million barrels in 2000. The proposed sale of two of its five U.S. refineries will subtract about another 700,000 barrels of capacity.
“Once they’ve sold Carson and Texas City, they won’t have much refining left and it would be difficult to exit completely,” said Iain Armstrong, an analyst at London-based broker Brewin Dolphin that holds about 70 million BP shares. “Why not break up into various upstream businesses? Bob has steadied the ship, but it should be doing better than this.”
Since taking over in October, Dudley has overseen the sale of $25 billion upstream assets in Argentina, Colombia, Pakistan and Vietnam and said he will focus the company on exploration. He signed a $7 billion deal with Reliance Industries Ltd. to explore offshore India. The proposed $8 billion tie-up with Rosneft to explore Russia’s Arctic Kara Sea was blocked by the billionaire partners in the TNK-BP venture.
“Splitting up an oil company can make for quicker decision times as well as sharper capital and other resource allocation,” said Andrew Steinhubl, a partner at management consultant Bain & Co. in Houston. “Whether the model fits for the larger companies remains to be seen.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Swint in London at bswint@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Will Kennedy at wkennedy3@bloomberg.net
Quelle:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-24/...-billion-to-jpmorgan.html
Im Grund ist und bleibt das ein Nullsummenspiel -> das Geld ist ja nicht weg nur weil es nicht ausbezahlt wird.
BP War früher DIE brittische Rentenaktie... für Rentenfonds spielt die Dividende schon eine rolle.... und wenn BP für Rentenfonds wieder attraktiv wird, dann steigen diese auch wieder richtig ein - was wiederum zu mehr Kursplus führt, als die Dividende im Unternehmen jemals erwirtschaften könnte....
Ausserdem hab ich es Privat auch ganz gerne wenn ich alle 3 Monate ein paar extra Teuros auf dem Konto hab - und das ganz ohne kaufen/verkaufen Stress...
>> ERGO: Ich bin eher für ein wenig mehr Dividende, als für einen höheren Kurs - da ich die Aktie in den nächsten JAHREN sowiso nicht verkaufen werde....
Jedenfalls finde ich es in Anbetracht der bevorstehenden Gerichtsverfahren nicht als tragisch an wenn die Dividende nicht erhöht wird (ich bin mir sicher, dass auch die Rückstellungen bis auf weiteres nicht aufgelöst werden - bloß nicht mit übermäßigem Reichtum auffallen ... ;)
Hat jemand eine Quelle dafür, dass die Rentenfonds überhaupt jemals ausgestiegen sind?
Der Reliance deal wurde nicht nur genehmigt sondern sogar von ursprünglich 23% auf 30% ausgeweitet:
"India's cabinet on Friday approved Reliance Industries' plan to sell 30 percent stake in 21 oil and gas blocks, instead of the 23 originally planned, to BP."
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/...bharti-rise/763611.html
das der Euro so gestiegen ist in letzter Zeit, wir haben zu den 52 Wochen-Hochs ne Differenz von € - Pfund von fast 6%.
wäre der Eurokurs im Vergleich zum Pfund gleich geblieben ständen wir jetzt bei ~5.80€.
dafür musst du bereit sein auch was zu bezahlen *g*
Ganz frisch aus dem BP Newsletter:
- Access gained to 31 new blocks worldwide in the last year
BP was awarded a 100 per cent interest in blocks 23(a) and TTDAA 14, both in deepwater frontier acreage offshore Trinidad’s east coast, under production sharing contracts.
The success follows detailed subsurface research and evaluation by BP whose Trinidad operations account for more than half of Trinidad and Tobago’s natural gas output and 12 per cent of BP’s global oil and gas production. The awards will double the acreage held by BP controlled companies in Trinidad and Tobago.
“BP has a long history and major business in Trinidad and Tobago, and we are keen to participate in the next phase of exploring the country’s resources,” said Bob Dudley, BP group chief executive. "These awards mean BP has gained access to 31 new upstream blocks across the world since July last year, a significant step up in new access.
Since July 2010 BP has gained new exploration access in Azerbaijan, Brazil, Indonesia, Australia, the UK and China. In addition, BP reached agreement in February with Reliance Industries to take a 30 per cent interest in 23 oil and gas licences offshore India.
“BP is very pleased to be given this opportunity to be pioneers as we work to unlock Trinidad’s deepwater potential using the best in class technology and expertise, potentially bringing additional benefits from our existing business and infrastructure,” added BP Trinidad and Tobago regional president Norman Christie. “The decision to participate in this bid round demonstrates BP’s long term commitment to Trinidad and Tobago.”
- In addition to these latest awards in the past year BP has gained interests in: 10 licence blocks in Brazil on the completion of the purchase of Devon Energy’s Brazilian interests; four new coalbed methane blocks and the North Arafura licence in Indonesia; four deepwater exploration blocks in the Ceduna basin offshore Australia; two deepwater blocks in the South China Sea; seven new licences in the UK North Sea; and the Shafag-Asiman PSA in the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan.
- Completion of the agreement between BP and Reliance remains subject to receipt of final regulatory approvals.
- BP has been operating in Trinidad and Tobago since the 1960s, first producing oil in 1972. BP currently holds exploration and production licences covering 3,600 square kilometres offshore the east coast of Trinidad. Facilities include 13 offshore platforms and the Galeota Point onshore processing facility. BP also holds interests in all of Atlantic LNG’s four LNG production trains on Trinidad. BP is the largest producer of hydrocarbons in Trinidad and Tobago, with average production in 2010 of some 460,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day.
Quelle:
http://www.bp.com/...icle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7070020