埃克森美孚出售其全球范围内非战略性资产

据11月25日Gulf Times报道，埃克森美孚(ExxonMobil)正在推进资产出售，该公司目前的资产出售规模正在增加，预计将出售价值高达250亿美元的亚洲、欧洲和非洲的石油和天然气资产。

路透社援引银行业消息人士的话称，这家跨国石油公司表示，资产出售将帮助公司腾出资金，投资于二叠纪和圭亚那等核心项目。

埃克森美孚的目标是到2021年出售价值150亿美元的非战略性资产。

该公司董事长兼首席执行官达伦?伍兹(Darren Woods)在本月早些时候发布的第三季度业绩报告中表示，截至2019年第三季度末，已经完成了出售150亿美元资产目标的近三分之一。

消息人士称，目前埃克森美孚正将投资重点放在二叠纪、圭亚那、莫桑比克和巴布亚新几内亚等地，并计划出售更多资产，包括全球至少11个国家的待售资产。

今年9月，埃克森美孚签署了一项协议，以45亿美元的价格将其在挪威的非经营性上游资产出售给Var Energi。据说该公司还打算出售其在英国的资产，这将使它成为最新一家退出英国北海市场的美国石油公司。

路透社估计，埃克森美孚还计划出售其在德国的陆上天然气资产、罗马尼亚的一个海上项目的股权、尼日利亚油田的股权、乍得油田的全部股权、赤道几内亚的出口项目，以及在马来西亚、印尼、澳洲和阿塞拜疆的资产。埃克森美孚还在就出售墨西哥湾几个油田的股权开展谈判。

Rystad能源估计,埃克森美孚可能从英国北海筹集到20亿美元,从墨西哥湾的资产中筹集20亿美元,从澳大利亚的Gippsland盆地和马来西亚的项目中分别筹集30亿美元,从越南的项目中筹集10亿美元,从尼日利亚的项目中筹集30亿美元,以及从阿塞拜疆Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli项目中筹集13亿美元。

此前，穆迪将埃克森美孚评级展望由稳定下调为负面，即便该公司在2021年之前完成150亿美元资产出售的官方目标，该公司的自由现金流将在2020年和2021年仍继续为负值。

王佳晶 摘译自Gulf Times

原文如下：

ExxonMobil moves to sell assets in Nigeria, others

Oil major ExxonMobil is moving ahead with asset sale which is currently on the increase and the move is expecting to shed oil and gas assets in Asia, Europe, and Africa worth up to $25 billion.

The multinational oil company said the development will help it free up cash to invest in its core projects such as the Permian and Guyana, according to Reuters which quoted banking sources.

Exxon has an official target to sell US$15 billion worth of non-strategic assets by 2021.

As at the end of Q3 2019, the oil major had reached nearly one-third of its US$15-billion asset sale target, chairman and chief executive officer Darren Woods said in the Q3 results release earlier this month.

Now, as Exxon is focusing on the Permian, Guyana, Mozambique, and Papua New Guinea, the oil and gas major is looking to sell more assets and has included assets up for sale in at least 11 countries worldwide, according to Reuters’ sources.

In September this year, ExxonMobil signed a deal to sell its non-operated upstream assets in Norway to V?r Energi AS for US$4.5 billion.

The supermajor is also said to be looking to sell its assets in the U.K, which will make it the latest U.S. oil company to quit the U.K North Sea.

Reuters estimates indicated that Exxon is also looking to sell onshore gas assets in Germany, a stake in an offshore project in Romania, stakes in fields in Nigeria, the whole stake in a field in Chad, an exit from Equatorial Guinea, assets in Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, and Azerbaijan. Exxon is also in talks to sell stakes in several field in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to Rystad Energy’s estimated that Exxon could raise up to US$2 billion from the UK North Sea, up to US$2 billion from assets in the Gulf of Mexico, up to US$3 billion each from the Gippsland basin in Australia and from an exit from Malaysia, below US$1 billion from Blue Whale in Vietnam, up to US$3 billion from assets in Nigeria, and up to US$1.3 billion from Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli in Azerbaijan.

It would be recalled that earlier last week, Moody’s changes its outlook on Exxon to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’, expecting negative free cash flow to continue in 2020 and 2021, even if the supermajor hits its official US$15-billion asset sale target by 2021.