{"id":116563,"date":"2026-09-03T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/116563\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:17:13","slug":"shell-expands-canadian-presence-with-completion-of-arc-resources-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/116563\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell Expands Canadian Presence with Completion of ARC Resources Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/f3617b47e9d3f5b7815a7c0be320b4675bd3e3aa3104144a5f2a65f30a72026a\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefit_w960%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fmt_newswires_uk_369%2Faa60b555ef15cae2b56eac352e00670d.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"MT Newswires - Shutterstock\" height=\"403\" width=\"768\" class=\"yf-1f8hkhu loader\"\/><\/a> MT Newswires -Shutterstock           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Shell (SHEL.L, SHELL.AS) completed its acquisition of Canadian oil and gas producer ARC Resources at an enterprise value of $16.5 billion, strengthening its foothold in the Montney basin of British Columbia and Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>The deal includes the assumption of $2.5 billion in net debt and leases by the oil major and will be funded through $3.3 billion in cash and $10.6 billion in newly issued Shell shares. ARC Resources shareholders will receive CA$8.20 in cash and 0.40247 Shell share for each share held.<\/p>\n<p>Shell said late Tuesday that the acquisition immediately adds 370,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day to its liquids and gas portfolio and supports a production compound annual growth rate of 4% through 2030 from 2025 levels.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction is expected to generate double-digit returns, bolster long-term cash flows and be accretive to free cash flow share from 2027 onwards, the company noted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The acquisition increases Shell&#8217;s exposure to long-duration, low-cost liquids production. Through disciplined integration, we will build on the strengths of both organizations to unlock the value that underpins this transaction,&#8221; Shell Chief Executive Wael Sawan said.<\/p>\n<p>Shell shares were more than 1% down in both London and Amsterdam during early trading.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MT Newswires -Shutterstock Shell (SHEL.L, SHELL.AS) completed its acquisition of Canadian oil and gas producer ARC Resources at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20685],"tags":[12347,633,1498,254,11,12348,4356,12353,12349,12350,12354,12355,5775,12356,3051,1460,1150,4496,12357,12351,12352,12358,12359,73,12360],"class_list":["post-116563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-shell","tag-401k","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-financial-information","tag-investing","tag-investment-tools","tag-investor","tag-market-news","tag-mortgage","tag-mutual-funds","tag-personal-finance","tag-quote","tag-real-estate","tag-retirement","tag-shell","tag-shell-plc","tag-stock","tag-stock-research","tag-stock-valuation","tag-stocks","tag-suze-orman","tag-tax","tag-track-portfolio"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117206361439932512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}