Essar Energy

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Essar Energy plc
Company typeSubsidiary
Industry Oil and gas, Energy
Founded1998
Headquarters Port Louis, Mauritius
Key people
Prashant Ruia (Chairman and Non- Executive Director), S Thangapandian (Chief Executive Officer), Simon Murray CBE (Vice Chairman)
Productsrefined petroleum products, electricity
RevenueUS$27,257.7 million (2013) [1]
US$790.8  million (2013) [1]
US$(175.0) million (2013) [1]
Parent Essar Group
Subsidiaries Essar Oil

Essar Energy plc is Mauritius-based Indian energy company with assets in the power and oil and gas businesses. Headquartered in Port Louis, Mauritius and subsidiary of Essar Group, the firm has interests in both the power generation and petroleum industries. In May 2014 the company was acquired by its majority shareholder, Essar Global Fund Limited.

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History

Established in 1998 as a wholly owned business unit of the Essar Group conglomerate, [2] the business was floated on the London Stock Exchange in April 2010, marking the exchange's largest initial public offering since December 2007. [3] The company was added to the FTSE 100 Index at the subsequent quarterly review. Essar Global Fund Limited retained an approximate 76% stake in Essar Energy. [4] The lead underwriters to the initial public offering were JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank. The primary offering raised £1.3bn. Ravi Ruia, the Chairman, and Sanjay Mehta, a senior board member of Essar Global Limited, were identified in an Economic Times of India article as instrumental in the listing. [5]

Essar Energy announced in 2013 that it would sell its 50% stake in the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited to the Kenyan government [6] and, in May 2014, the company was acquired by its majority shareholder, Essar Global Fund Limited. [7]

The Sunday Times reported on 26 September 2021, that the company was conducting urgent talks with HM Revenue and Customs to prevent it from collapse. [8] The company reached an agreement with HM Revenue and Customs on 29 September 2021. [9]

Operations

Power plants

Essar Energy has an installed power generation capacity of 3,910 MW across six plants. [10]

Petroleum

An Essar Petroleum gas station in Khammam, Telangana, India Essar Petrol Bunk 31102016.jpg
An Essar Petroleum gas station in Khammam, Telangana, India

The company has an 86% interest in a joint venture with Reliance Petroleum. [11] Essar Oil also owns and operates Essar Refinery, a petroleum refinery at Vadinar in Gujarat's Jamnagar district. It is India's second largest refinery, which has a capacity of 18 million metric tons per annum. [12]

The company holds both onshore and offshore petroleum exploration and production rights in India, as well as rights to a coalbed methane block. The firm also holds exploration and production interests in Nigeria, Vietnam, Australia, Indonesia, and Madagascar. In June 2012 Essar Energy received the final forest approval for developing a coal mine in Indonesia. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Annual Report 2013" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Essar Energy: Prospectus" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
  3. ↑ Kumar, Nikhil (5 May 2010). "Essar suffers worst IPO in eight years". The Independent . Retrieved 20 June 2010.
  4. ↑ "Notification of major interest in shares". Essar Energy. p. 11 May 2010. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
  5. ↑ Essar's Ravi Ruia relocates to London; to raise $3bn
  6. ↑ Essar Energy to sell Mombasa refinery stake, International: Oil Review Africa, 2013
  7. ↑ "Ruias win shareholder approval to buy Essar Energy". Reuters. 9 May 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "Petrol giant Essar on brink of collapse". The Sunday Times. 26 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  9. ↑ "UK reaches phased tax payment deal with Essar as fuel panic persists". Offshore Technology. 29 September 2022.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 "Power". Essar Energy. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  11. ↑ Eluvangal, Sreejiraj (2 June 2010). "Essar Energy invests $225 million in Essar Oil". DNA . Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  12. ↑ "Essar Energy to be listed on London's FTSE 100". The Hindu . 10 June 2010. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  13. ↑ "Essar Energy gets final nod to develop coal mine". Business Line. 8 June 2012.
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