石油圈中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社墨西哥、加拉加斯报道，三位消息人士表示，荷兰皇家壳牌公司正在谈判，将其在委内瑞拉石油合资公司的股份出售给总部位于巴黎的Maurel & Prom公司。此举旨在缩减在这个境况不佳的欧佩克成员国的原油业务，将重点放在天然气上。 壳牌正寻求出售其与PDVSA的合资公司（Petroregional del Lago，该合资公司位于委内瑞拉西部苏利亚州，靠近哥伦比亚）40%的股份。 由于委内瑞拉仍然深陷于严重的经济衰退、恶性的通货膨胀和长期食品、药品的短缺之中，该地区一直受到设备被盗和几乎每天停电的困扰。 其中一位消息人士称，在Petroregional，壳牌因未能及时从 PDVSA获得股息，以及少数合作伙伴独立出口生产的禁令，这使得2016年每天生产约3.3万桶原油的Petroregional失去了急需的收入，并影响了盈利能力。 据两位消息人士透露，委内瑞拉石油部正在分析其潜在的销售。这些消息来源被要求保持匿名，因为他们没有被授权谈论谈判。 这些人不知道壳牌公司和Maurel & Prom之间可能谈判的价格，其主要利益相关者是印尼国家石油公司Pertamina 2013年，Pertamina试图通过收购另一家合资公司（Petrodelta）的股份进入委内瑞拉，但没有得到政府的批准。 Maurel & Prom公司传统上专注于非洲市场，但近年来，它也与总部位于多伦多的Frontera能源公司在哥伦比亚和秘鲁地区结成了战略联盟。其中一位消息人士说，Maurel & Prom计划收购Petroregional，作为财团的一部分。 壳牌潜在规模正在缩小，因为世界上最大的原油储备地委内瑞拉的石油工业陷入了崩溃。欧佩克上周四公布的数据显示，其9月份的石油产量再次下降至每天144.3万桶，将年平均产量拉至60年来的最低水平。 壳牌公司是在委内瑞拉的一家先驱公司，在其石油行业经营了一个多世纪。但自已故总统Hugo Chavez在2007年将部分能源行业国有化，将所有石油项目转化为由PDVSA控股的合资企业以来，该公司一直在委内瑞拉保持低调。 Petroregional在委内瑞拉传统石油枢纽马拉开波湖经营的Urdaneta Oeste油田，是壳牌在委内瑞拉唯一的原油业务。苏利亚州曾是该国最重要的原油产区，但近年来其产量却一落千丈。 退出Petroregional 将使壳牌更加关注天然气，这是该公司当务之急。 根据一项仍在与委内瑞拉谈判中的计划，壳牌正在推动达成一项协议，让其在Dragon油田生产天然气，Dragon油田是加勒比海近海项目的四个地区之一。壳牌公司表示，天然气将在其在特立尼达和多巴哥经营的工厂进行加工。 2016年，壳牌完成了对BG集团520亿美元的收购，成为全球最大的液化天然气交易商。这次收购和其他收购使得壳牌公司在距离委内瑞拉东海岸几公里的特立尼达有更多的机会进入天然气业务。 詹晓晶摘自路透社 原文如下： Shell seeks to sell Venezuela JV stake to France’s Maurel & Prom Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.AS) is negotiating the sale of its stake in a Venezuelan oil joint venture to Paris-based Maurel & Prom (MAUP.PA), three sources said this week, a move to scale down its crude business in the ailing OPEC-member country to focus on gas. The Anglo-Dutch company is seeking to sell its 40 percent stake in Petroregional del Lago, a joint venture with Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] in the western state of Zulia near Colombia. The area has been plagued by frequent theft of equipment and near-daily power cuts as Venezuela remains mired in deep recession, hyperinflation and chronic shortages of food and medicine. At Petroregional, Shell has grown frustrated by delays in receiving dividends from PDVSA and a ban on minority partners independently exporting production, one of the sources said. That has deprived Petroregional, which in 2016 produced about 33,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude, of much-needed income and dented profitability, the source added. Its potential sale is being analyzed by Venezuela’s Oil Ministry, according to two of the sources. The sources asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak about the negotiations. The persons were unaware of a possible price tag negotiated between Shell and Maurel & Prom, whose main stakeholder is Indonesian state energy firm Pertamina [PERTM.UL]. Pertamina in 2013 tried to enter Venezuela by buying a stake in another joint venture, Petrodelta, but did not receive government approval. Maurel & Prom has traditionally been focused on Africa, but it has also formed strategic alliances with Toronto-based Frontera Energy Corp (FEC.TO) in Colombia and Peru in recent years. One of the sources said Maurel & Prom was planning to buy Petroregional as part of a consortium. Shell’s potential scale-back comes as Venezuela’s oil industry, home to the world’s biggest crude reserves, is in meltdown. Its oil output declined again in September to 1.434 million barrels per day (bpd), OPEC data showed on Thursday, knocking down the annual average to a six-decade low. Shell was a pioneering firm in Venezuela and has operated in its oil industry for more than a century. But it has maintained a low profile in Venezuela since late President Hugo Chavez nationalized swaths of the energy sector in 2007, converting all oil projects into PDVSA-controlled joint ventures. Petroregional, which operates the Urdaneta Oeste crude field in Venezuela’s traditional oil hub of Maracaibo Lake, is Shell’s only crude operation in Venezuela. In recent years, production has plummeted in what used to be the country’s most important crude producing zone, Zulia state. Exiting Petroregional would allow Shell to focus more on natural gas, a priority for the company. Under a plan still under negotiation with Venezuela, Shell is pushing for a deal to let it produce gas in the Dragon field, one of four areas that form part of the Mariscal Sucre offshore project in the Caribbean sea. Shell has said the gas would be processed at facilities it operates in Trinidad and Tobago. Shell in 2016 completed the $52 billion purchase of BG Group, creating the world’s largest trader of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The takeover and other purchases gave Shell greater access to gas operations in Trinidad, a few kilometers from Venezuela’s eastern coast.
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