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Brand 'Cairn' is now exclusively owned by Vedanta
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SME Times News Bureau | 07 Nov, 2021
Vedanta Ltd (Cairn Oil & Gas business) has reiterated that it is a separate entity with no connection to Cairn Energy PLC.
Cairn
Energy PLC, the Scottish oil and gas exploration company, that is also
commonly referred to as Cairn Energy, will discontinue the use of the
brand name 'Cairn' as part of its corporate identity by December 2021.
In
a regulatory statement on November 3, Cairn said it plans to change the
company name from Cairn Energy PLC to Capricorn Energy PLC, effective
from December 13, 2021.
"This follows an agreement at the time
of the Cairn India IPO that the name would ultimately be changed. Given
the recent legislative change in India and our participation in the
related tax refund process, we are now putting in place the planned name
change."
As per Vedanta, the brand 'Cairn' is exclusively owned by it.
Discussing
the change, Vedanta CEO Sunil Duggal said: "When Cairn Energy PLC
exited its Indian operations in 2011 after selling its stake to Vedanta
Group, it continued to use the brand name 'Cairn' though the brand
'Cairn' is owned by Vedanta Ltd (erstwhile Cairn India Ltd). At Vedanta,
we have since then extensively invested in the company and expanded its
footprint a cross the length and breadth of the country."
After
being taken over by the Vedanta Group, the company, Cairn India Ltd,
disassociated itself from Cairn Energy PLC -- the former having no
association with Cairn Energy PLC and with both companies being separate
legal entities with different promoters/shareholders.
Cairn India Ltd was later merged into Vedanta Ltd in 2017.
Cairn
Oil and Gas Deputy CEO Prachur Sah said: "The disassociation of Cairn
Oil and Gas from Scottish company Cairn Energy was always a matter of
fact. This clarity will help us disengage from issues involving Cairn
Energy."
As the two entities are separate, Cairn Oil and Gas does
not have anything to do with the Cairn Energy PLC's retrospective tax
dispute case, the statement said.
Cairn Oil and Gas, a division
of Vedanta Ltd, is the largest private oil and gas exploration and
production company in India, accounting for more than a quarter of
India's domestic crude oil production. It has an extensive resource
base, with a current interest in 58 blocks in India, including the 41
blocks under the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) Round I auction,
five blocks each under Round II and Round III, and two awarded under the
Discovered Small Fields (DSF) Round-II.
In 2004, Cairn made the
largest onshore discovery in more than two decades in India at Mangala,
Rajasthan. In its operations of 20 years, Cairn has opened four frontier
basins with numerous discoveries, 38 in Rajasthan alone.
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