Sumitomo sells all of its stake in U.S. Marcellus shale gas project
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Sumitomo sells all of its stake in U.S. Marcellus shale gas project

The company did not disclose buyer of the stake.

  • By ICN Bureau | September 07, 2020
Sumitomo Corp has sold all its stake in the Marcellus shale gas project in the United States for a undisclosed sum.
 
Sumitomo had bought a 30 per cent stake in the project in 2010 from Rex Energy Corp, which went bankrupt in 2018. The project is now 70 per cent owned and operated by PennEnergy Resources.
 
"We have sold our stake as it is difficult to predict future prices of natural gas, and as it may take a long time to gain profit contribution from the project and its development may not proceed as planned even after the prices recover," a Sumitomo spokesman said on Tuesday.
 
He declined to disclose the buyer of the stake.
 
Sumitomo had booked an impairment loss on the stake in around 2015 when slumping oil and gas prices forced international energy companies and Japanese trading houses to writedown the value of their assets.
 

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