MW Petroleum Corporation (A)
Background:
In late 1990, the group of Amoco Corporation and Apache Corporation had begun talking regarding the possible acquisition of MW Petroleum from Amoco to Apache. MW Petroleum Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amoco Corporation which has its own reserves, management team and with full ownership in geologic and engineering data. MW Petroleum, a free-standing exploration company that was even as large as some of independent oil companies. It operated exploration and development for well, approximately working interests in 9,500 wells in 300 production areas. The growth of MW was very attractive to the other investors, which company grows 30% per year since mid-1980s, due to large acquisition. If the acquisition will push through, this will be one of the largest acquisition in that period because MW size was two times large compare to Apache’s current operation.
Amoco Corporation
Amoco Corporation was formerly Standard Oil Company (Indiana) was built in 1889 located at Whiting, Indiana, United States. The company was acquired by American Oil Company which founded in Baltimore in 1910 and incorporated in 1922. In 1998, Amoco merged with BP which one of the biggest oil company in England. The company contributes to the modern industry, their innovation was breaks into two parts, the gasoline tanker truck which used to designed to carry liquefied loads, dry bulk cargo or gases on roads and drive through filling is a facility which sells fuel and usually lubricants for motor vehicles.
Apache Corporation
Last 1954, Apache Corporation was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It’s an American independent oil, gas and energy company. Apache is large multinational company, which regional offices and operations in U.S., Argentina, Canada, Egypt and United Kingdom. They explore, developed, and produced natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids. The company participated in drilling 1,087 gross wells, with