据路透社4月12日珀斯报道,荷兰皇家壳牌公司首席执行官范伯登12日在澳大利亚珀斯表示,作为为期两年的帮助资助其收购天然气巨头BG集团计划的一部分,壳牌公司可能出售部分较老和较低等级的北海资产来提高其投资组合的质量。
壳牌公司在2月份完成520亿美元收购BG集团以后说,该公司将在2016年和2018年之间出售300亿美元的资产来帮助资助这笔交易以及在油价自去年年中以来暴跌以后维持其股息。
范伯登是在出席在珀斯举行的一次会议期间对媒体记者发表上述讲话的。他说,壳牌公司在北海收购的BG集团资产是更新的资产,它们具有更多运行空间并具有更高的质量,因此,壳牌公司将寻求出售其在北海的其他资产。
范伯登还说,壳牌公司仍认为其与BG集团收购的巴西深水资产具有极高吸引力。
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Shell CEO Says May Sell Some North Sea Assets to Improve Portfolio
Reuters
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
PERTH- Royal Dutch Shell could sell some of its older, lower grade North Sea assets to improve the quality of its portfolio, CEO Ben van Beurden said on Tuesday, part of a two-year program to help finance its purchase of gas major BG Group.
After completing the $52 billion acquisition of BG in February, Shell said it would sell $30 billion in assets between 2016 and 2018 to help finance the deal and to maintain its dividend following a sharp drop in oil prices since mid-2014.
BG assets Shell acquired in the North Sea are newer, have more running room and are of higher quality, so the company would look to sell some of its other properties there, van Beurden told reporters at a conference.
Van Beurden also said Shell still sees the Brazil deepwater assets it acquired with BG as highly attractive.