EnQuest sells $650M of senior notes

EnQuest PLC has completed its offering of $650 million aggregate principal amount of 7.0% senior unsecured notes due 2022 at par.

Interest will be payable semi-annually. The Notes, the net proceeds of which will be used for general corporate purposes, will be senior obligations of the Company and will rank pari passu with all present and future senior unsecured indebtedness of the Company.

The guarantees of the Notes by certain subsidiaries of the Company will be subordinated to the obligations of the Guarantors under the Company’s senior secured revolving credit facility.

The company says it is the largest UK independent oil producer in the UK North Sea. Its UK assets are the producing operated oil fields Heather/Broom, Thistle/Deveron, West Don, Don Southwest and Conrie, the producing non-operated Alba oil field and the Alma/Galia and Kraken developments. EnQuest acquired the Greater Kittiwake Area producing oil field, in March 2014.  In Q1 2014, the company was awarded a licence in the Don North East area.