据今日油价9月6日消息，路透社消息人士周五称，欧洲最大的天然气管道运营商、总部位于意大利的天然气基础设施公司Snam正准备竞购能源传输伙伴公司(ETP)价值60亿美元的天然气管道项目。
如果取得成功，这将不仅是Snam在美国的首个项目，也将是该公司在欧洲以外地区的首个项目，因为美国天然气行业正蓬勃发展。
据路透社报道，Snam目前正在就收购ETP出售的罗孚管道33%的股份进行尽职调查。
尽管围绕北美洲(包括美国和加拿大)的石油和天然气管道存在种种争议，但它们仍然是一项颇具吸引力的投资。
根据Roverpipelinefacts的数据，罗孚管道总长713英里，从俄亥俄州东南部、西弗吉尼亚州西部和宾夕法尼亚州西南部开始，然后继续向西穿过俄亥俄州，再向北进入密歇根州。
该管道每天可从马塞勒斯和尤蒂卡输送32.5亿立方英尺的天然气。
最初有传言称，ETP正考虑在7月中旬出售其在该管道项目中33%的股份。据彭博社报道，当时人们认为这样一笔交易将为ETP带来25亿美元的净收益。ETP已经以15.7亿美元的价格将罗孚32%的股份出售给了黑石集团。
该管道大大缓解了尤蒂卡和马塞勒斯地区的运输瓶颈，并通过缓解了其中一些瓶颈而提高了该地区的天然气产量。NEXUS和管道巨头威廉姆斯公司的大西洋日出项目输油管道也缓解了该地区的运输瓶颈。裘寅 编译自 今日油价
原文如下：
Europe’s Biggest Gas Pipeline Operator Looks To Get Hands On US Assets
Europe’s biggest gas pipeline operator, Italy-based Snam is crafting a bid for a piece of Energy Transfer Partner’s $6 billion natural gas pipeline, Reuters sources said on Friday.
If successful, it would not only be Snam’s first US project, but it also be its first project outside Europe, as the US natural gas industry is going gangbusters.
Snam is now conducting due diligence on buying a 33% stake, sold by ETP for the Rover pipeline, according to Reuters.
Despite all the controversy surrounding oil and gas pipelines in North America—both in the United States and Canada, they remain an attractive investment.
The Rover Pipeline travels a distance of 713 miles, starting in Southeastern Ohio, Western West Virginia, and Southwestern Pennsylvania, and then continues west through Ohio and then north into Michigan, according to Roverpipelinefacts.
The pipeline has the capacity to move 3.25 billion cubic feet per day, transporting gas from the Marcellus and Utica.
Rumors first surfaced that ETP was considering a sale of its 33% stake in the pipeline project in mid-July. At the time, it was thought that such a sale would net ETP $2.5 billion, according to Bloomberg. ETP has already ditched a 32% stake in Rover to Blackstone for $1.57 billion at a time when the pipeline, then just under construction, faced possible delays over environmental scrutiny and even some environmental-related work stoppages and lawsuits.
The pipeline has done much to relieve the bottlenecks in the Utica and Marcellus regions, and has increased natural gas production in the area through the relief of some of these bottlenecks. Also relieving the transportation bottlenecks in the area are the NEXUS and Williams’ Atlantic Sunrise pipelines.
