HONG KONG and WASHINGTON, July 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Noble Group Limited (SGX: N21) ("Noble") and EIG Global Energy Partners ("EIG") today announced the formation and commitment to capitalize Harbour Energy, Ltd ("Harbour Energy"), a company that will own and operate upstream and midstream energy assets globally. Harbour Energy will seek to own high quality assets that provide exposure to key supply trends while capturing value up-lift associated with control of offtake, logistics and supply chain management. Noble will be preferred offtake and marketing partner of Harbour Energy, while EIG, together with the company's internal management team, will serve as manager of the company and oversee the acquisition of assets. Harbour Energy's capitalization will be funded solely through balance sheet capital of each of Noble and EIG.
EIG also announced today that Linda Z. Cook has been appointed a Managing Director of EIG, a member of EIG's Executive Committee and CEO of Harbour Energy.
"The creation of Harbour Energy gives us the exciting opportunity of joining with an industry leader such as EIG to exploit the tremendous opportunities that the changing global energy markets are presenting," said Yusuf Alireza, Chief Executive Officer of Noble. "This transaction represents a significant milestone in the continued implementation of Noble's 'asset light' strategy, exploiting our best in class expertise in logistics and supply chain management, while partnering with market leading asset managers and owners."
R. Blair Thomas, Chief Executive Officer of EIG, said, "New sources of supply, together with demand growth in Asia, are driving fundamental changes in the energy sector and related trade flows. By partnering with Noble, we believe Harbour Energy will be uniquely positioned to benefit from the established global platforms of each of our firms and capture value both through the ownership and operational improvement of assets and the flow business those assets generate. We couldn't be more pleased that someone of the caliber of Linda Cook has agreed to join EIG and serve as CEO of Harbour Energy. She is an extraordinarily accomplished senior executive with deep operating and management expertise across all facets of the global energy industry."