据美国彭博新闻社8月11日休斯敦报道，美国第4大石油公司西方石油公司（Oxy）首席执行官Vicki Hollub近日在与分析师的电话会议上表示，Oxy在阿尔及利亚的石油和天然气资产是其核心股份，这些油气资产将不再上市出售。
今年5月，Oxy拟将其在阿尔及利亚的油气资产出售给法国道达尔公司的计划遭到了这个北非国家的阻挠，这给这个试图缩减巨额债务的页岩钻井公司带来了进一步的压力。
这个决定是Oxy面临的一个大绊脚石。去年曾斥资370亿美元收购阿纳达科石油公司的Oxy将把出售阿尔及利亚油气资产的所得用于帮助减轻债务。受新冠肺炎疫情大流行影响，全球原油需求大幅下降，进一步加重了这家总部位于休斯敦的石油生产商的资产负债表压力，迫使Oxy在5月份将第一季度股息降至数十年来的最低水平。Oxy不久前还披露其第二季度减记了66亿美元的资产价值，相当于其市值的40%以上。
Hollub在电话会议上说：“这个决定并不是说我们放弃出售阿尔及利亚油气资产。我们相信，那里的资产质量非常高，与我们的国内资产相比，它们将非常有竞争力。我们想留在阿尔及利亚。”
出售阿尔及利亚和加纳的油气资产本应为Oxy筹集大约50亿美元的资金，Oxy明年将开始偿还大量债务。知情人士7月曾表示，Oxy时下正就向印尼国家石油公司出售其在非洲和中东的能源资产一事进行谈判。“
李峻 编译自彭博社
原文如下：
Oxy decides against selling Algerian assets after government pushback
Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s Algerian oil and gas assets are a core holding and will no longer be listed for sale, Chief Executive Officer Vicki Hollub said on a conference call with analysts.
In May, Occidental’s proposed sale of its Algerian assets to Total SE was blocked by the North African country, putting further pressure on the shale driller as it tries to shrink a massive debt pile.
The decision was a major stumbling block for Occidental, which had earmarked the proceeds from the sale to help reduce debt after buying Anadarko Petroleum Corp. for $37 billion last year. The pandemic-driven plunge in crude demand put further stress on the Houston-based oil producer’s balance sheet, forcing it in May to cut a quarterly dividend to the lowest level in decades. Occidental reported a $6.6 billion writedown in the second quarter, equivalent to more than 40% of its market value.
“It’s not that we gave up on selling Algeria,” Hollub said on the call. “We believe that those assets there are such high quality, they’re going to be very competitive with our domestic assets. We want to be in Algeria.”
Offloading assets in Algeria and Ghana was supposed to raise about $5 billion for Occidental, which has large debt repayments due beginning next year. Occidental is in talks about a potential sale of energy assets in Africa and the Middle East to Indonesia’s state-owned PT Pertamina, people with knowledge of the matter said last month.
