APA Corp. has entered into an agreement to sell non-core producing Permian Basin assets to an undisclosed buyer for $950 million, before customary closing adjustments.

APA said on Sept. 10 that it is selling Central Basin Platform, Texas and New Mexico Shelf and Northwest Shelf assets with an estimated net production averaging 21,000 boe/d, of which approximately 57% is oil.

APA is engaged in a divestiture campaign after buying Callon Petroleum for $4.5 billion on April 1. As part of the deal, APA took out term loans totaling about $2 billion. The company owes an additional $4.8 billion in debt, according to Ben C. Rodgers, the company’s senior vice president of finance and treasurer.

“We've already made progress on paying those off with over $1 billion of asset sales this year,” Ben C. Rodgers, the company’s senior vice president of finance and treasurer, said in August at a Denver conference. He added that there was “more to come.”

APA said that, pro-forma for the deal, fourth-quarter U.S. production guidance is 307,000 boe/d, which is 34% above the company’s fourth-quarter 2023 production.

John J. Christmann IV, APA’s CEO, said that through multiple transactions completed this year, “we have high graded and focused our U.S. asset base.”

“Our remaining Permian position has scale and balance in the unconventional Midland and Delaware Basins,” Christmann said. “The net impact of our acquisition of Callon Petroleum and the follow-on asset sales is that APA has increased its onshore U.S. production by approximately 66,000 boe/d in 2024 and continued to add economic unconventional inventory, with no material change in net debt levels compared to year-end 2023.”

Christmann continued, “The company’s more focused unconventional Permian asset base and advantageous transport and marketing positions compares favorably with like-sized, pure-play peers in the region, while APA’s conventional global portfolio also provides geologic, geographic and price diversification as well as differential exploration upside.”

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Exxon Mobil Corp. is exploring a sale of select conventional assets in the Permian Basin.

XTO is reportedly marketing packages of assets in the Permian’s Central Basin Platform that could fetch approximately $1 billion in a sale, depending on oil prices. The Central Basin platform is a legacy part of the Permian Basin focused on conventional production.

Exxon Mobil’s shale subsidiary XTO Energy, “is exploring market interest for select conventional assets in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico,” the Texas-based supermajor said in a statement.

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RBC Richardson Barr served as the lead financial adviser to APA and Truist Securities also served as financial advisers; Bracewell LLP provided legal counsel to APA.

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