欧盟监管机构批准沙特阿美收购萨比克

中国石化新闻网讯 据石化新闻2020年3月1日迪拜报道，沙特证券交易所（Tadawul）3月1日在利雅得表示，世界最大的原油出口公司沙特阿美日前获得了欧盟监管机构欧盟委员会(European Commission)的批准，将以690亿美元价格收购沙特阿拉伯化工巨头沙特基础工业公司(萨比克/Saudi Basic Industries Corp.) 的70%股份。

从沙特阿拉伯的公共投资基金（PIF）购买的这70%股份将为PIF提供现金，并帮助沙特阿美扩大其下游业务。沙特能源大臣阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹?本?萨勒曼上周在沙特阿美的一次会议上表示：“我们不再是单纯的石油和天然气行业。电力、化工、石化、原油、炼油等行业都被考虑为能源行业，这就是为什么沙特阿美将成为沙特政府在萨比克中持有股份的所有者的原因。”

根据Tadawul的公告，这笔交易现在已经根据反垄断规则获得了所有必要的批准，并能够最终敲定。

石化产品占到萨比克的大部分业务。萨比克还生产金属和农业营养素，在美洲、欧洲、亚洲和非洲都建有分厂。

李峻 编译自 石化新闻

原文如下：

Aramco's SABIC acquisition approved by EU regulators

Saudi Aramco, the world's largest exporter of crude oil, received approval from the European Commission to acquire 70% of Saudi Basic Industries Corp., for $69 billion, the Saudi stock exchange Tadawul said Sunday.

The shares bought from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund will provide cash to the PIF and help Aramco to expand its downstream operations. "We're no longer the oil and gas sector," Saudi energy minister Abdulaziz bin Salman told an Aramco meeting in Dharhan last week. Power, chemicals, petrochemicals, crude oil, refining are all considered the energy sector, "and this is why Aramco will be owner of the government shares in SABIC soon."

The deal has now received all necessary clearance, in accordance with antitrust rules, and can be finalized, according to the Tadawul announcement.

Petrochemicals accounts for the bulk of SABIC's business. It also produces metals and agri-nutrients and has facilities in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.