Interest in the first new offshore gas production in the Black Sea – in this case, the American giant Carlyle, the largest private asset manager in the world, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), shareholders of Black Sea Oil&GAS ( BSOG ), pursue an association with a third party or even the sale is an extremely high indicator, reports Profit.ro.

Natural gas production platform off the coast of NorwayPhoto: ABACA / Abaca Press / Profimedia

The investment fund Carlyle and the EBRD have asked the competent institutions of Romania to create a data room for the Midia Natural Gas Development (MGD) project, and that OMV Petrom is interested in accessing it, with the aim of a potential acquisition of the company.

Sources from the energy market told Profit.ro that 11 companies, including OMV Petrom as well as Romgaz, have submitted requests for access to the data room, but not all of them are really interested in acquiring BSOG, some of them are only associations or only interested in data about nature reserves in the area.

The amount requested for the sale of BSOG is EUR 800 million, according to Profit.ro sources. 800 million euros are requested for BSOG’s 70% participation in the MGM project (the rest belongs to Petro Ventures Resources SRL – 20% and Gas Plus Dacia SRL -10%).