Yanchang Petroleum International ("Yanchang Petroleum International" or the "Company") engages in both the Upstream and Downstream sectors of the Oil and Gas Industry. Upstream, its activities include Exploration, Development and Exploitation of Oil and Gas fields; Downstream, its activities include fuel oil trading and distribution.
Overseas Expansion and Flagship of Yanchang Petroleum Group
Yanchang Petroleum International is an important platform to develop the overseas business of the Yanchang Petroleum Group, the majority shareholder of the Company. Yanchang Petroleum Group is among the top four state-owned oil and gas enterprises in China, which ranked No. 234 in the Fortune Global 500 in 2021. With the support of its majority shareholder, Yanchang Petroleum International pursues acquisition opportunities in stable regions of the world and strives to become a mid-size international energy company.
Upstream Business
The Company has established a foothold in the North American Oil and Gas market through its wholly owned subsidiary Novus Energy Inc., (“Novus”), a Canadian company which produces oil and gas in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Novus’s Oil and Gas Production Business: Novus engages in acquiring, exploring, developing and producing crude oil and natural gas in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Novus produces high netback, light sweet crude oil by horizontal wells; it has drilled in excess of 360 horizontal oil wells in the geological formation known as Viking since its incorporation in 2009. Novus currently owns in excess of 160,000 net acres of land.
The core of Novus Oil and Gas portfolio is located in the Greater Dodsland area of Southwest Saskatchewan. Novus' assets have great potential for further developments. They are a concrete foundation which the Company leverages to accelerate its international expansion.
Downstream Business
Yanchang Petroleum International holds a 70% equity interest in Henan Yanchang Petroleum Sales Co Ltd (“Henan Yanchang”), which principally engages in wholesale, retail, storage and transportation of refined oil products in China.
Henan Yanchang’s Refined Oil Business: Henan Yanchang owns land parcels of 209 mu in aggregate, 120,000 cubic meter of storage tank capacity and a railway line of 2,500 meter. Henan Yanchang has a license to distribute and sell refined oil products at an annual capacity of more than 2 million ton. The sale policy of “cash before delivery” is strictly implemented so that receivables recovery stands at 100%.
The Group has established oil products trading companies in Zhoushan, Zhejiang and Shenzhen, China, respectively, for expanding its oil products trading business which will become a new profit driver.
Outlook
We will reinforce the exploration and development of Novus, moderately increase production volume on stable ground and reduce production and operating costs as the targets.
We will devote more efforts on development of domestic and overseas trading of oil products, nurturing a new profit driver.
We will seek opportunities to introduce new energy, new technology, new strategic co-operation partners and new investors, expand business scale and diversify financing channel to enhance the profitability, creating and maximising value to its shareholders.