Abu Dhabi state gas company ADNOC to sell 4 percent of shares in IPO

Abu Dhabi state gas company ADNOC to sell 4 percent of shares in IPO

DUBAI: The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s gas processing firm said Friday it plans to sell 4 percent of its shares to local investors in the latest initial public offering to be made by a state-run energy company in the Middle East, according to AP. The move follows a similar IPO by the Saudi oil giant Aramco in 2019 that raised some $30 billion, and comes months before the UAE is set to host this year’s UN climate talks. The UAE, which is home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, selected Sultan Al-Jaber, the CEO of ADNOC, who also oversees renewable energey projects, to chair the COP28, angering climate change activists. ADNOC has access to 95 percent of the UAE’s natural gas reserves, the world’s seventh largest. It supplies gas to more than 60 percent of the local market and exports to more than 20 countries. The company had a net income of $4.2 billion in the first 10 months of 2022, up from $3.6 billion in all of 2021. It plans to list over 3 billion shares on the Abu Dhabi stock exchange for purchase by local investors starting Feb. 23. “Natural gas is central to the energy transition,” Khaled