Thani Investments appoints Merrill Lynch as its global advisors

Al Thani Emirates Petroleum Corporation has a number of Oil and Gas interests in the Middle East and North Africa. It has established strong relationships with a number of National Oil Companies and has MOUs with Sonatrach and Pertamina EP for jointly identifying oil & gas investment opportunities. Al Thani Emirates Petroleum Corporation is actively evaluating the acquisition of producing oil and gas interests in North Africa.

'Our strength has been in business development which enabled us to secure our asset portfolio and Merrill Lynch has recognised this competitive advantage which we possess.' Said Abdulla Saeed Al Thani, Chairman of Al Thani Emirates Petroleum. He continued: 'Value creation is available in high quality assets in Africa. Through this cooperation we will be able bring to market these opportunities for all stakeholders, in particular for the individual countries and their people.'

'We are pleased to have this opportunity to work together with the Al Thani Emirates Petroleum Corporation. Today's market environment offers a range of attractive opportunities in the region, and we believe the Al Thani Emirates Petroleum Corporation is very well positioned to take advantage of them,' said Rahul Dhir, Managing Director and Co-Head of Merrill Lynch European Energy and Power Investment Banking.