据美国彭博新闻社7月23日伦敦报道,熟悉内情的消息人士说,一直在寻求在油价暴跌之际剥离其外围业务的意大利最大石油公司埃尼公司时下正在考虑出售其在尼日利亚陆上的部分或全部资产。
消息人士说,埃尼公司日前已要求顾问寻找出售资产的选项,其中包括出售其在这个西非国家油气田的股份。
因信息属于秘密而要求不透露姓名的消息人士说,根据埃尼公司决定出售的资产,交易可以为埃尼公司增加20亿至50亿美元的收入。他们说,埃尼公司也可能决定保留这些资产。
埃尼公司的一名代表拒绝对此事发表评论。
由于石油公司在尼日尔三角洲地区频频发生动荡、暴力和盗油事件以后缩减了他们在尼日利亚的油气作业,包括壳牌公司和雪佛龙公司在内的石油公司正在出售油田。
尼日利亚的大约200万桶石油日产量使这个国家成为非洲最大的石油生产国。
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原文如下:
Eni to weigh sale of Nigeria assets amid oil price drop
7/23/2015
LONDON (Bloomberg) -- Eni SpA, Italy’s largest oil company, is considering selling part or all of its onshore Nigerian operations as it seeks to divest peripheral businesses amid a drop in oil prices, people familiar with the matter said.
Eni has asked advisers to look at options for the assets, which include interests in oil and natural-gas fields in the West African country, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is private. Depending on what Eni decides to sell, the transaction may raise from $2 billion to $5 billion, the people said. It could also decide to keep the operations, they said.
A representative for the company declined to comment.
Oil companies, including Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Chevron Corp., are selling fields as they scale back Nigerian operations following unrest, violence and the theft of crude in the Niger delta. The country’s daily output of about 2 Mbbl of oil makes it Africa’s largest producer.