埃克森美孚寄希望于出售挪威资产以提高业绩

据海上工程1月5日报道，根据上周五公布的监管文件，埃克森美孚公司预计，出售其挪威油气生产资产将带来高达36亿美元的收益，以大幅提升第四季度的业绩。

将资产出售给意大利能源巨头埃尼拥有多数股权的Var Energi AS公司的收益，有望抵消该公司炼油和化工业务的较低利润。

9月份的挪威交易是埃克森早些时候计划到2021年剥离约150亿美元非战略资产的一部分，包括20多个生产油田的所有权权益，2019年的总日产量约为15万桶石油当量。

监管文件还显示，由于全球聚乙烯供应过剩导致利润微薄，埃克森美孚的遭重创的化工业务较第三季可能在第四季度大幅削减利润。

炼油利润的持续压力以及衍生品对汽油，柴油和其他产品制造业务的影响也将对该公司下游业务的盈利能力造成压力。

埃克森美孚核心石油和天然气生产业务的运营利润可能从第三季度的22亿美元增至27亿美元。挪威业务的出售预计将使上游部门的总收入增加34亿至36亿美元。

郝芬 译自 海上工程

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ExxonMobil Expects Norway Asset Sale to Boost Results

Exxon Mobil Corp expects a gain of as much as $3.6 billion from the sale of its Norwegian oil and gas production assets to significantly lift results for the fourth quarter, according to a regulatory filing align="justify">The gain from the sale of the assets to Var Energi AS, majority owned by Italian major Eni SpA, is also expected to offset lower margins in the company's refining and chemicals businesses.

The Norway deal in September, a part of Exxon's earlier plan to divest about $15 billion in nonstrategic assets by 2021, included ownership interests in over 20 producing fields with a combined production of about 150,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2019.

The regulatory filing also showed that Exxon's hard-hit chemical business could slash its profit in the fourth quarter, compared with the third, due to weak margins resulting from a global glut of polyethylene.

Continued pressures align="justify">Operating profit from Exxon's core oil and gas production business could rise to as much as $2.7 billion, from $2.2 billion in the third quarter. The sale of the Norway business is expected to add $3.4 billion to $3.6 billion to the upstream unit's total income.