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Who is Noble Energy?
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Noble Energy is a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production company with a high-quality, multi-asset global portfolio of crude oil and natural gas assets, including in the Permian Basin, DJ Basin, Israel, and other
established positions in Equatorial Guinea, U.S. midstream and the Eagle Ford.
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The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with over 2,000 employees and roughly 2.05 billion BOE of proved reserves as of the end of 2019.
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Why is Chevron buying Noble now? What are the benefits to Chevron?
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The acquisition of Noble Energy provides Chevron with low-cost, proved reserves and attractive undeveloped resources that will enhance and diversify Chevron’s already advantaged Upstream portfolio.
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Noble Energy brings a new set of low capital, cash generating assets in offshore Israel and strengthens Chevron’s position in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Noble Energy also enhances our leading U.S. unconventional position with de-risked acreage in the DJ Basin and over 92 thousand, largely contiguous and adjacent, acres in the Permian Basin.
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As a result, Chevron expects the transaction to enhance its long-term performance and benefit our results starting one year after closing.
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How are we going to pay for the transaction? What is the impact to Chevron’s financial position?
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The acquisition is an all-stock transaction, leveraging Chevron’s attractive equity currency while protecting our balance sheet.
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The total enterprise value of this transaction is $13 billion.
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Upon closing, Chevron will issue approximately 58 million shares of stock for a total consideration of $5 billion
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Chevron will also assume Noble Energy’s net debt and book value of non-controlling interest.
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Chevron continues to expect to maintain a strong balance sheet, with ample liquidity to support our financial priorities, including the dividend.
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Will there be any changes to management?
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Upon closing, the combined company will continue be led by Mike Wirth as Chairman and CEO.
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At this time, we are focused on completing the transaction in the fourth quarter, subject to Noble shareholder approval, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, and delivering value to our shareholders.
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Does this signal a change in Chevron’s strategic focus?
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Chevron’s strategic priorities remain unchanged.
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This acquisition is aligned with our priorities and underscores our goal to continuously high-grade our portfolio and invest in short-cycle, higher-return assets with low execution risk while protecting our balance sheet.
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How will we integrate Noble Energy into Chevron?
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We are in the process of forming an integration team.
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You can expect frequent communications from the integration team as their work progresses.
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What assets do we intend to divest as a result of this acquisition?
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We are constantly looking at opportunities high grade our portfolio.
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We will continue to evaluate our portfolio in its entirety on an ongoing basis, which will include Noble Energy’s assets post-closing.
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How long will it take for this transaction to close? What is the process between now and closing?
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The acquisition is subject to Noble Energy shareholder approval, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Until then, it is business as usual, and both companies will continue to operate as separate companies.
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We will continue to be transparent throughout the process.
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We expect the transaction to close in the fourth quarter of 2020.
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How will this affect Chevron’s culture?
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The Chevron Way defines who we are, what we do, what we believe and what we plan to accomplish.
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We will continue to conduct all our business following our Chevron Way principles and values.
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What is the immediate impact on our daily activities?
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There is no immediate impact on your day-to-day activities.
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Until the deal officially closes, which we expect in the fourth quarter of 2020, we will operate as two separate companies.
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It is important that we continue to focus on delivering safe, reliable results.
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How will this impact the transformation?
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This acquisition aligns with our ongoing efforts to transform our company by high grading our assets and evolving our operating models and structures, workflows and processes to ensure we can deliver the best possible results.
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The actions we have taken to date to high-grade our portfolio and transform and evolve our workflows, structure and operating models enable us to acquire these high-quality assets in the current market environment while preserving
our financial strength.
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Our transformation objectives and activities – including the selection schedule – remain unchanged.
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Will there be job impacts as a result of this transaction? Are you opening or closing offices as a result?
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Ensuring a talented and skilled workforce is a priority.
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Our goal is to establish an integrated organization ready to safely and effectively manage the world-class assets and opportunities of the combined company.
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Until the transaction closes, which is expected in the fourth quarter of 2020, it’s business as usual, and both Chevron and Noble will operate as separate companies.
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Joe Geagea and Brent Smolik, Noble’s President and Chief Operating Officer, will be the executives accountable for the integration. Balaji Krishnamurthy, general manager of the Transformation Office, will lead the Integration
Management Office in addition to his current role.
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Will Noble Energy employees be competing for jobs in the next two selection rounds?
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The acquisition is subject to Noble shareholder approval, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Until then, it is business as usual, and both companies will continue to operate as separate companies.
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We will continue to be transparent throughout the process.
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We expect the transaction to close in the fourth quarter of 2020.
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