Nexen
| Nexen
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | July 12, 1971 |
| Seat |
Calgary , Canada
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| management | Kevin Reinhart (President and CEO , on an interim basis) |
| Number of employees | 3067 (Sept. 2012) |
| sales | 6,364 million CAD 2011 |
| Branch | oil and gas |
| Website | www.nexeninc.com |
Nexen is a Canadian company headquartered in Calgary .
In 1971 the company was founded under the name Canadian Occidental Petroleum . 80 percent of the company initially belonged to the US energy company Occidental Petroleum . Occidental Petroleum does not currently own any shares in Nexen. Nexen produces natural gas and oil in Canada , the Gulf of Mexico , Colombia , Yemen, as well as in the North Sea and off the West African coast.
In July 2012, the Chinese company CNOOC announced that it would buy Nexen. The takeover has yet to be approved by the authorities in Canada, China and the USA. After months of hesitation, on December 7th, 2012, the Canadian government announced to Harper that it had "exceptionally" approved the sale of Nexen to the Chinese state-owned company.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chinese buy Canadian energy company ( Memento from July 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Financial Times Germany from July 23, 2012
- ↑ Government approves CNOOC-Nexen and Petronas-Progress takeover bids, canada.com dated December 7, 2012, Jason Fekete, Postmedia News Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Canadian oil producer Nexen: takeover by China open, orf.at of December 11, 2012 http://orf.at/#/stories/2155710/
