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Cairn Energy plc is an independent Scottish oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Edinburgh. It has operational interests in Albania, Bangladesh, Greenland, Nepal and Tunisia and produces around 33,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. It previously had major activities in India, where it made more than 20 discoveries in Rajasthan, including a major oil discovery at Mangala; these were sold through the spin-off of its Indian subsidiary Cairn India to Vedanta Resources in December 2010. As at 30 June 2010, it had total proven commercial reserves of of oil equivalent.〔 Cairn Energy has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It has a secondary listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange. ==History== The company was founded in 1981 by Sir Bill Gammell, the former international Rugby player, his father James (Jimmy), his brother Pete and others. Its initial operations were in the USA and, following its listing on the London Stock Exchange in 1988, it expanded into the UK North Sea and internationally (Papua New Guinea, Spain, Vietnam, China and Australia). Cairn acquired Conoco's UK onshore acreage in 1988 and became one of the largest operators of UK onshore oil production with the Palmers Wood oil field just south of London, near Junction 6 of the M25,〔(Onshore Oil and Gas Discoveries 1983–2000 ) National Archives〕 Humbly Grove (near Basingstoke) and others. Cairn's expansion started with a substantial (non-operated) gas discovery (East Cameron 331) in the Gulf of Mexico in 1993 followed by another large gas discovery at Sangu, offshore Bangladesh near Chittagong, in 1996.〔(Conclusion of successful Sangu drilling programme ) PR Newswire, 1996〕 In parallel, Cairn launched a series of takeovers of public listed companies – Teredo Petroleum in 1994,〔(Michael Seymour: Biography ) FT.com〕 Holland Sea Search NV in 1995〔(Presentation to The Scottish Oil Club by Dr. Mike Watts of Cairn Energy titled "Building a Business in South Asia" ) Scottish Oil Club, November 2004〕 and Command Petroleum in 1996.〔(Oilex seeks a passage to India ) Daily Mail, 21 August 2006〕 In 1996, Cairn farmed out a 25% interest in the Sangu field to Halliburton in return for Halliburton bearing a 50% share of the development costs.〔(Alliance to produce gas off Bangladesh ) Oil & Gas Journal, 5 August 1996〕 In 1997, it sold half of all its Bangladeshi interests to Royal Dutch Shell in return for Shell assuming a $330 million carry of Cairn's exploration and development costs.〔(Shell joins Cairn Energy in natural gas projects in Bangladesh, India ) Journal Record, 1 May 1997〕 This agreement gave Cairn an interest in Shell's huge acreage position in Rajasthan onshore in North West India. Cairn drilled two unsuccessful exploration wells and Shell then sold its 50% share to Cairn for $7.5 million: Cairn's third well, now 100% owned, found the Mangala oil field.〔(Cairn's oil find in Mangala to reduce India's import bill ) Financial Express, 14 November 2008〕 In December 2010, Cairn agreed to sell a stake of 58.5% of Cairn India, its India-focused subsidiary, to Vedanta Resources for $8.67 billion. Talks between the two companies started in August 2010.〔 〕 However, approval did not come from the Indian government until September 2011 and the deal had to be restructured. The company sold an additional 3.5 per cent of its shares in its Cairn India for about USD 360 million in June 2012. In March 2014, the company announced that Bill Gammell would step down as chairman after the annual general meeting on 15 May 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://oilpatchasia.com/2014/03/sir-bill-gammell-stepping-down-from-cairn-energy/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cairn Energy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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