Enlarged Petroceltic returns to market

Trucking into market: Petroceltic returns to London junior exchange after merger

Shares in Petroceltic International have returned to market in London and Dublin with the enlarged capital from the Irish explorer’s merger with UK-based Melrose Resources.

Stock in the newly-combined outfit was trading near unchanged at £0.07 on London’s Alternative Investments Market on Thursday morning.

Melrose Resources has been delisted from the same exchange after its scheme of reduction in capital was confirmed yesterday, clearing the final hurdle for the $270 million tie-up to be completed.

The friendly deal creates an enlarged group with combined proven and probable reserves of 84 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe), 2C resources of 357 million boe and unrisked prospective resources of 1.365 billion boe.

The assets are spread across North Africa, the…

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