據4月9日Gulf Times報道，因需求銳減，油價暴跌，沙特阿拉伯主權財富基金（PIF）已增持歐洲石油公司的股份，其中包括價值約2億美元的挪威最大石油生產商挪國油（Equinor ASA）的股份。

上周，這家公共投資基金主要通過公開市場購入挪國油的股票。但尚不清楚該基金是何時買進這些股份的，也不清楚它是否仍在繼續買進。

《華爾街日報》報道稱，PIF還增持了殼牌、道達爾和埃尼的股份，總價值約10億美元。

沙特阿拉伯價值3200億美元的主權財富基金正利用股市估值暴跌的機會，加緊交易，成為全球最大的主權資本管理公司。該基金上月增持了郵輪運營商嘉年華公司(Carnival Corp.) 8.2%的股份——此前該公司股價大幅下挫。

除了油價暴跌和全球市場崩盤外，海灣地區的主權財富基金正將部分資金調回國內，以應對經濟增長的放緩。國際金融協會(Institute of International Finance)數據顯示，這些國家的基金資產今年可能減少超3000億美元。不過，增持大型國際石油公司股份的做法并不常見。

本周歐洲能源巨頭普遍復蘇，挪國油股價今年下跌了超30%，上周又上漲了18%，該公司目前的市值約為440億美元。該公司表示，將削減約20%的資本支出計劃，這與殼牌和雪佛龍應對油價下跌的舉措一致。

王佳晶 摘譯自 Gulf Times

原文如下：

Saudi Arabia picks up stakes in global oil giants

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has built up stakes in European oil firms, including about $200 million in Equinor ASA, as the kingdom navigates the coronavirus pandemic and plummeting crude prices.

The Public Investment Fund amassed shares in Norway’s largest producer mostly through the open market last week. But it’s unclear exactly when the fund bought the holding or if it’s still buying.

The ‘Wall Street Journal’ reported that PIF also built up stakes in Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Total SA and Eni SpA, worth about $1 billion combined across all four oil majors.

Saudi Arabia’s $320 billion sovereign wealth fund is taking advantage of a slump in stock market valuations as it steps up deal-making to become the world’s biggest manager of sovereign capital. The fund last month built an 8.2 per cent stake in cruise operator Carnival Corp. after shares slumped due to the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

On top of the collapse of oil prices and a meltdown in global markets, Gulf sovereign wealth funds are channeling some of their billions back home to counter slowing economic growth triggered by the coronavirus. The decline in assets from funds in these countries could exceed $300 billion this year, according to the Institute of International Finance, the industry’s global association.

Still, building stakes in some of the largest international oil companies is unusual .

Equinor shares slumped just over 30 per cent this year before rising 18% last week, amid a broad recovery for European energy majors, giving the company a current market value of about $44 billion. The company has said it will cut capital expenditure by about 20 per cent compared to earlier plans, in line with moves by rivals such as Shell and Chevron Corp. to counter a downturn in prices.