Precision Drilling to Buy Grey Wolf
TSC Staff
08/25/08 - 03:48 PM EDT
Precision Drilling (PDS Quote) agreed to acquire fellow driller
Grey Wolf (GW Quote) in a roughly $2 billion deal.
Under the terms of the agreement, Grey Wolf stockholders will receive $5 in cash and 0.1883 newly issued trust units for each of their shares. That equates to $1.12 billion in cash and 42 million units for the company.
Shares of Grey Wolf were recently down 11 cents at $8.48. Precision was off 5.2% at $20.25.