在吸引了潛在買家的興趣后，美國(guó)能源巨頭雪佛龍將出售其在澳大利亞西北大陸架液化天然氣合資企業(yè)的股份。

在收到數(shù)家買家的投標(biāo)后，該公司啟動(dòng)了對(duì)其在這個(gè)價(jià)值340億美元的項(xiàng)目中所持16.67%股份的正式營(yíng)銷程序。

雪佛龍澳大利亞公司周四在一份電子郵件聲明中表示:“在一系列可靠買家主動(dòng)接洽之后，雪佛龍澳大利亞公司已決定向市場(chǎng)推廣其在NWS項(xiàng)目中未運(yùn)營(yíng)的六分之一權(quán)益。”

澳大利亞最古老的液化天然氣工廠由伍德賽德(Woodside)運(yùn)營(yíng)，30多年來一直在從澳大利亞西北海岸的氣田中液化天然氣。

然而，這些油田的天然氣正逐漸枯竭，該項(xiàng)目現(xiàn)在正將重點(diǎn)轉(zhuǎn)向一種不同的商業(yè)模式，旨在處理來自第三方的天然氣。

該聲明稱:“NWS項(xiàng)目正將重點(diǎn)轉(zhuǎn)向成為一家具有全球競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力的第三方收費(fèi)機(jī)構(gòu)，現(xiàn)在正是雪佛龍考慮潛在買家提出的合理價(jià)值建議的恰當(dāng)時(shí)機(jī)。”

雪佛龍補(bǔ)充稱，作為西澳大利亞州Gorgon和Wheatstone兩大液化天然氣項(xiàng)目的運(yùn)營(yíng)商，該公司仍致力于澳大利亞業(yè)務(wù)。

卡拉塔天然氣廠有五條液化天然氣生產(chǎn)線，每年的產(chǎn)能為1690萬(wàn)噸。該設(shè)施還設(shè)有國(guó)內(nèi)天然氣生產(chǎn)線、凝析穩(wěn)定裝置和液化石油氣裝置。

除了運(yùn)營(yíng)商Woodside和雪佛龍，其他在NWS項(xiàng)目的合作伙伴包括BP，殼牌，必和必拓和日本澳大利亞液化天然氣公司。

趙斌 編譯自 離岸能源

原文如下：

Chevron selling stake in Australia’s NWS LNG project

US energy giant Chevron is selling its stake in the Australian North West Shelf LNG venture after drawing interest from potential buyers.

The company made a move to start a formal marketing process for its 16.67 per cent stake in the $34 billion project after receiving bids from several buyers.

“Chevron Australia has made the decision to market its non-operated one-sixth interest in the NWS project, following a number of unsolicited approaches from a range of credible buyers”, the company said in a emailed statement on Thursday.

Australia’s oldest LNG plant, operated by Woodside, has been liquefying gas from fields located off the north-west coast of Australia for more than 30 years.

Hovewher, these fields are slowly running out of gas and the project is now shifting its focus towards a different business model aimed at processing gas from third parties.

“The NWS Project is shifting its focus towards becoming a globally competitive third-party tolling facility, and this is the appropriate time for Chevron to consider fair value proposals from potential buyers for its interest”, the statement said.

Chevron added it remains committed to Australia as operator of the giant Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects located in Western Australia.

The Karratha gas plant has five LNG trains with a capacity of 16.9 million tonnes per year. The facility also features domestic gas trains, condensate stabilisation units and LPG units.

Besides operator Woodside and Chevron, other partners in the NWS project include BP, Shell, BHP, and Japan Australlia LNG.