Petrocapita signed a purchase-and-sale agreement with Palliser's receiver manager FTI Consulting Canada to buy "all, or substantially all" of Palliser's assets, effective 1 May 2016.

A purchase price was not disclosed. An FTI representative said the price was confidential.

Palliser's assets include heavy-oil properties from the Lloydminster area of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

The acquisition would increase Petrocapita's mineral land position from 9859 net acres to 68,643 acres.

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