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Talos Energy Announces Strategic Acquisition of Gulf of America Deepwater Oil Assets

$TALOPress releaseJun 30, 2026, 4:15 PM ETRead the release

Talos Energy announced a definitive agreement to jointly acquire deepwater Gulf of America assets from Shell Offshore alongside Ridgewood Energy, with $850M cash consideration net to Talos and an estimated final net cash outlay of $450-500M after interim cash flows. The acquired assets add approximately 23 MMBoe of proved reserves and 16 MBoe/d of production (~77% oil), including operatorship of the Coulomb field and a 25% non-operated interest in the BP-operated Na Kika platform and four associated fields.

Key figures

Deal Value Usd
$850 million
Escrow deposit
$42.5 million
Borrowing base new
$850 million
Proved reserves mmboe
23
Borrowing base current
$700 million
Probable reserves mmboe
10
Monument well net pay ft
245
Acquired production mboed
16
Acquired production oil pct
77%
Final net cash consideration
$450 - $500 million
Monument well total depth ft
32250
Upside sharing threshold bbl
$60
Incremental borrowing commitments
$150 million

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