March 27 (Reuters) - U.S. oilfield services provider SLB
said on Wednesday it will combine its carbon capture
business with Norway's Aker Carbon Capture to speed up
the deployment of carbon capture technologies.
SLB, which will own 80% of the combined business, will pay
4.12 billion Norwegian crowns ($381.49 million) in cash for Aker
Carbon Capture Holding AS (ACCH), which holds the business of
the carbon capture technology provider.
SLB may also make additional payments of up to 1.36 billion
Norwegian crowns over the next three years based on the
performance of the business.
"We are excited to create this business with ACC (Aker) to
accelerate the deployment of carbon capture technologies that
will shift the economics of carbon capture across high-emitting
industrial sectors," said SLB Chief Executive Officer Olivier Le
Peuch.
ACCH will pay $50 million to purchase SLB's carbon capture
business, Aker said in a separate statement.
Aker Carbon Capture has a technology to enable carbon
emission reductions in hard-to-abate sectors such as waste
incineration, bioenergy, cement and gas-to-power.
($1 = 10.7997 Norwegian crowns)
(Reporting by Surbhi Misra and Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru;
Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri and Subhranshu Sahu)