Chevron offers to buy Noble Energy’s midstream unit

SAN RAMON, California and HOUSTON — Months after it closed a $5 billion acquisition of Weld County’s second-largest oil producer, Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) has offered to buy full control of Noble Energy’s pipeline partner in the region.

In a disclosure to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Friday, the California-based Chevron offered to purchase the remainder of Noble Midstream Partners LP (Nasdaq: NBLX) for $12.47 per share. That figure is higher than the $10.38 per share Chevron offered to acquire Noble last year, although that figure did not include premiums for Noble’s proven…