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Kerogen Capital Invests In Zennor Petroleum

On August 17, 2015, private equity firm Kerogen Capital invested in oil/gas exploration company Zennor Petroleum

Investment Highlights
  • This is Kerogen Capital’s 5th transaction in the Oil/Gas Exploration sector.
  • This is Kerogen Capital’s 2nd transaction in the United Kingdom.
Investment Fate
  • Zennor Petroleum was sold to a strategic buyer in 2021 for 625M USD.

Investment Summary
Date 2015-08-17
Target Zennor Petroleum
Sector Oil/Gas Exploration
Investor(s) Kerogen Capital
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Zennor Petroleum

Surrey, United Kingdom
Zennor Petroleum is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, appraisal, development, and production of hydrocarbons on the UKCS. Its assets are located across the Central, Northern, and Southern North Sea. Zennor is an established UKCS operator and currently has a production of around 5,000 boe/day. Zennor Petroleum is based in Surrey, United Kingdom.

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Investor

Kerogen Capital

Hong Kong, China

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2007
PE ASSETS 2.0B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Kerogen Capital is a provider of growth and development capital to small and medium-sized oil and gas companies. Kerogen primarily focuses on the upstream oil and gas sector serving demand from Asia. Geographic areas of focus predominantly span South East Asia, Central Asia, and select countries in the Middle East and Africa. Kerogen Capital has offices in Hong Kong and London.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 14
Sector: Oil/Gas Exploration M&A 5 of 8
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 5 of 11
Country: United Kingdom M&A 2 of 4
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-05-15 Hillwood International Energy

United States

Hillwood International Energy is a private E&P company operates the Sarsang block in Kurdistan in which it has made two world-class oil discoveries. The partners in the block include Maersk Oil and Marathon Oil.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-04-18 Hurricane Energy

Godalming, United Kingdom

Hurricane Energy is an oil and gas company with a specialist focus on naturally fractured basement reservoirs. Hurricane Energy was founded in 2005 and is based in Godalming, United Kingdom.

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