Castrol Acquisition & Valuation

Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Co is engaged in the development, construction, and operation of an integrated petroleum refining and petrochemical complex. The company's operating segment include Refined Products and Petrochemicals. It generates maximum revenue from the Refined products segment.

Cepsa is a Spanish integrated energy company founded in 1929 and renamed Moeve in 2024. Its historical operations include oil refining, fuel marketing, service stations, lubricants, aviation and marine fuels, petrochemicals and selected upstream interests. The group serves industrial customers, transport operators, distributors and motorists, generating revenue from commodity production, refining margins, chemical sales and retail energy products. It operates major industrial complexes in Andalusia and a broad Iberian commercial network. More recent investment has shifted toward renewable fuels, electric mobility, green hydrogen and other lower-carbon energy infrastructure. Mubadala has controlled the group since acquiring the former IPIC interest, while Carlyle held a substantial minority stake during part of the covered period.

Yantai Wanhua Petrochemical is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wanhua Chemical Group that operates a cluster of petrochemical production units in Yantai, China. The facility produces high-value chemicals including propylene oxide, tert-butyl alcohol, acrylic acid, and butyl acrylate, supplied in part through long-term feedstock agreements such as a supply arrangement with Kuwait Petroleum. In 2025, Kuwait's Petrochemical Industries Company acquired a 25% stake in the business, its largest investment in China's petrochemical sector to date.

Frontline PLC is an international shipping company engaged in the seaborne transportation of crude oil and oil products. Group operates through the tankers segment. The tankers segment includes crude oil tankers and product tankers. Its geographical area of operation includes Arabian Gulf, West African, the North Sea, and the Caribbean. Frontline earns revenue through voyage charters, time charters, and a finance lease. It is also involved in the charter, purchase, and sale of vessels.

Brenntag SE manufactures, distributes, and sells chemicals and chemical-based products. It operates in two reportable segments life science, material science and Specialties Other. Life science chemicals are used to produce cosmetics, food, animal nutrition, and pharmaceuticals. The material science chemicals are used to produce soaps and detergents, coatings, and paints as well as the extraction of oil and gas. The company organizes itself into four segments based on geography EMEA, North America, Latin America, and APAC.

ADNOC Oil Pipelines is an Abu Dhabi entity formed in 2019 that holds lease rights to crude oil and condensate pipelines of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. ADNOC pays it a tariff based on the volume of crude and condensate transported under a long-term lease, so its income is contracted and tied to throughput rather than to oil prices. The entity was created for ADNOC's 2019 pipeline infrastructure investment programme, in which ADNOC sold minority interests to international and regional institutional investors while keeping majority ownership and operational control.

Yamaha Motor Co Ltd is engaged in the manufacture and sale of motorcycles, marine products, and related equipment. The company operates through four reportable segments: Land Mobility, Marine, Robotics, and Financial Services. The Land Mobility segment includes motorcycles, highway vehicles, electric-assist bicycles, automobile engines, and components. The Marine segment handles outboard motors, water vehicles, boats, and fishing vessels. The Robotics segment provides surface mounters, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, industrial robots, and unmanned helicopters, while the Financial Services segment offers sales financing and leasing related to Yamaha products. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Land mobility segment.

Ambuja Cements Ltd manufactures and sells cement, concrete, and cement-related products to the building and construction industries. The company's portfolio of products includes Portland Pozolona cement and ordinary Portland cement. The vast majority of the firm's revenue is generated in India. Ambuja Cements has operations throughout India and uses a network of ports, bulk cement terminals, captive ships, and railroads to transport its products to both warehouses and directly to customers. The company also has a technical services team that partners with customers to teach concrete mixing and curing techniques.

Edison is an Italian energy company founded in 1884 and headquartered in Milan, with a stock listing history on the Milan exchange and a controlling shareholder in EDF. It generates electricity from gas-fired, hydroelectric, wind and solar plants and sells electricity, gas and energy services to households and businesses. It also imports and trades gas and develops energy efficiency services through its subsidiary Edison Energia. The group has grown through acquisitions of customer portfolios and service companies, including Gas Natural Vendita Italia in 2018 and three energy efficiency installers in 2026. The European Investment Bank agreed an 800 million euro financing in November 2025 to back its investment plan for the Italian energy transition.

Jordan Phosphate Mines Company is a Jordanian producer of phosphate rock and phosphate-based chemicals. It mines phosphate at several locations in Jordan and processes part of the output into phosphoric acid, diammonium phosphate and related fertilizers through associated industrial operations. The company sells to industrial and agricultural customers in Jordan and export markets, earning revenue principally from commodity and chemical-product sales. It was established in 1953 and is headquartered in Amman. Its shares trade on the Amman Stock Exchange, while significant strategic shareholders have included government-linked and fertilizer-industry investors. The company also owns logistics and industrial infrastructure used to move and process phosphate, making it an integrated mining and fertilizer supplier rather than a passive mineral-rights holder.

BorgWarner is a tier one supplier of turbo and thermal management technologies, drivetrain systems, powerdrive systems, and battery and charging systems mostly to automotive original equipment manufacturers. Its products aim to move a vehicle with as few electrons as possible, resulting in cleaner, cost-optimized, and more-efficient vehicles. Foundational products, the combustion vehicle business, contributes more than 80% to group revenue while BorgWarner transitions to becoming an electric vehicle-centric parts supplier (e-business). In 2024, 23% of the company’s revenue was sourced from Volkswagen and Ford. Revenue is well diversified geographically, with approximately a third each generated in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Freeport LNG is a Texas company that owns and operates a liquefied natural gas export terminal on Quintana Island near Freeport. The site began as an import terminal and was expanded with a three-train liquefaction plant, which started exporting in 2019 and has a capacity of about 15 million tonnes a year. Most of that capacity is sold under long-term tolling agreements to buyers including Osaka Gas, JERA, BP, TotalEnergies and SK E&S. The company was founded in 2002 by Michael Smith, who remains chairman, chief executive and majority shareholder. Infrastructure investors have funded the build-out: IFM Investors committed about 1.3 billion dollars of equity for the second train in 2013, Global Infrastructure Partners bought a quarter of the holding company in 2014, and JERA bought that stake in 2021 for 2.5 billion dollars. A fourth train is fully permitted.

Subsea 7 SA is an engineering and construction service provider in the offshore oil and gas industry. It provides a range of services, including subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines (SURF), fabrication, installation, maintenance, and heavy lifting, among many others. Its segments are Subsea and Conventional, Renewables, and Corporate. The group generates the majority of its revenue from the Subsea and Conventional segment includes Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines, Conventional services, Activities associated with the provision of inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) services, heavy lifting operations, and decommissioning of redundant offshore structures, carbon capture, and utilisation and storage. Its geographic areas are Norway, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Others.

Keyera Corp is a midstream energy business that operates out of Alberta. Its primary lines of business consist of the gathering and processing of natural gas in western Canada, the storage, transportation, and liquids blending for natural gas liquids and crude oil, and the marketing of natural gas liquids, iso-octane, and crude oil. The company operates in three reportable segments namely Gathering and Processing, Liquids Infrastructure and Marketing where Liquids Infrastructure is the key revenue segment.

Allison Transmission is the largest manufacturer of fully automatic transmissions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. Its automatic transmissions allow customers to achieve better fuel and operator efficiency than less expensive manual and automated manual transmissions. Allison serves several end markets, including on- and off-highway equipment and military vehicles. Its on-highway business commands approximately 60% global market share. The company’s transmissions can be found in Class 4-8 trucks, buses, and a limited number of large passenger vehicles (heavy-duty pickup trucks and motorhomes). Allison also produces commercial hybrid propulsion systems and is developing fully electric powertrains.

Sasol Ltd is an energy and chemicals company. Its operating model comprises two distinct businesses: Southern Africa Energy and Chemicals and International Chemicals. The Group's reportable segments are: Mining, Gas, Fuels, Chemicals Africa (part of the Southern Africa Energy and Chemicals business division), and America and Eurasia (part of the International Chemicals division). Maximum revenue is derived from the Fuels segment, which comprises the sales and marketing of liquid fuels produced in South Africa and sold under both short-and long-term agreements for retail sales and commercial sales, including sales to other oil companies. Geographically, the Group generates maximum revenue from South Africa, and the rest from Mozambique, the U.S., Europe, and the Rest of the world.

Chongqing Changan Automobile Co Ltd is engaged in automobile manufacturing. The company's own-brand models include Alsvin series, CS series, EADO series, RAETON series, Honor, and Oushang series automobiles and passenger cars. The company is also engaged in the research and development, production, and sales of automobile engines. It has also developed businesses such as mobile travel, automotive life services, new marketing, after-sales maintenance, and battery replacement services.

Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd engages in a variety of activities globally that include petroleum products, oil exploration and production, coal, and other businesses. The company operates through five segments. The Basic Chemicals segment makes and sells olefins and aroma products. Electricity/Renewable Energy covers thermal, solar, and wind power generation, electricity sales, and solar business. Fuel Oil handles production, trading, and import/export of refined petroleum. The Highly Functional Materials segment includes lubricants, chemicals, electronic materials, paving materials, and agri-bio. The Resource segment explores, develops, and sells crude oil, natural gas, and coal. Others cover insurance and intra-group services. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Fuel oil segment.