Saudi Aramco主导收购Lyondell美国炼油厂

Saudi Aramco and its US refining joint-venture Motiva Enterprises lead the race to buy LyondellBasell Industries’ Houston refinery. An announcement of the sale by Lyondell is expected this week. Lyondell uses the Houston refinery to produce feedstocks for its chemical plants. The refinery can run a variety of cheaper high-sulfur crude oils. In the past few years it has been running a large amount of Canadian oil. The 263,776 barrel per day (bpd) Houston refinery was restoring production on Monday after an early Thursday morning power outage. The refinery has been valued at about $1.5 billion based on an average price between $5,000 and $6,000 per barrel of refining capacity in recent sales of US refineries. Lyondell’s refinery supplies dry gas to Shell’s joint-venture refinery seven miles (11.25 km) east in Deer Park, Texas.