World Largest Methanol Producer $2.4 Billion Methanex Corporation to Buy OCI Global International Methanol Business for $2.05 Billion
12th September 2024 | Hong Kong
The world’s largest methanol producer Methanex Corporation ($2.4 billion market value) has announced to buy OCI Global international methanol business for $2.05 billion. Methanex (8/9/24) – Methanex Corporation (“Methanex” or the “Company”) (TSX:MX) (NASDAQ:MEOH) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OCI Global’s (“OCI”) international methanol business for $2.05 billion. The transaction includes OCI’s interest in two world-scale methanol facilities in Beaumont, Texas, one of which also produces ammonia. The transaction also includes a low-carbon methanol production and marketing business and a currently idled methanol facility in the Netherlands.” Strategic fit that enhances Methanex’s asset portfolio – OCI’s methanol business enhances Methanex’s asset portfolio with highly attractive assets in a low-risk jurisdiction that has an ample and economic supply of feedstock natural gas. As part of the transaction, Methanex expects to achieve approximately $30 million of annual cost synergies from lower logistics costs and lower selling, general and administrative expenses. Methanex anticipates low integration costs because of OCI’s similar operating model and expects that additional value can be obtained by applying its global expertise and extensive operational experience to the OCI assets. Methanex plans to integrate key operational practices at the facilities and will incorporate the OCI assets into its global risk-based management processes including turnaround and capital planning post-closing. OCI’s ammonia production, while modest compared with its methanol production, provides Methanex with a low-risk entry into a new and synergistic commodity in an adjacent and complementary segment to methanol with similar feedstock-based advantages. In addition to industrial and agricultural uses, ammonia has low-carbon alternative fuel capabilities for power generation and as a marine fuel and is a revenue diversification opportunity for Methanex. Purchase price – Under a definitive agreement with OCI, the $2.05 billion purchase price will consist of $1.15 billion in cash, the issuance of 9.9 million common shares of Methanex valued at $450 million (based on a $45 per share price) and the assumption of $450 million in debt and leases. The purchase price implies a multiple of 7.5 times Adjusted EBITDA at a $350/MT realized methanol price, including anticipated synergies. The world-scale North American operating assets have been acquired below reinvestment economics of brownfield or greenfield capacity. After the transaction Methanex will have approximately 77 million shares outstanding, of which OCI will own approximately 13 percent. Methanex intends to fund the cash consideration of the transaction through a combination of cash on hand and new debt issuance. The Company has obtained a fully committed debt financing package from Royal Bank of Canada to support the transaction.
“ World Largest Methanol Producer $2.4 Billion Methanex Corporation to Buy OCI Global International Methanol Business for $2.05 Billion “
Methanex – Methanex is a Vancouver-based, publicly traded company and is one of the world’s largest suppliers of methanol. Methanex shares are listed for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada under the trading symbol “MX” and on the NASDAQ Global Market in the United States under the trading symbol “MEOH”.
OCI Global – We are a global leader in nitrogen, methanol, and hydrogen, driving forward the decarbonization of the energy-intensive industries that shape, feed and fuel the world. OCI’s production capacity spans four continents and comprises approximately 13.5 million metric tons per year of hydrogen-based products including nitrogen fertilizers, methanol, biofuels, diesel exhaust fluid and melamine. OCI is headquartered in the Netherlands and listed on Euronext in Amsterdam.
World Largest Methanol Producer $2.4 Billion Methanex Corporation to Buy OCI Global International Methanol Business for $2.05 Billion
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