中国石化新闻网讯 据英国《每日星报》5月22日消息，澳大利亚第二大石油和天然气生产商伍德赛德石油公司在谈判破裂后解除了购买以色列最大天然气田四分之一股权的协议。该交易涉及金额高达26亿美元。
总部位于珀斯的伍德赛德公司周三在一份声明中表示：“双方谈判未能达成商业上可接受的结果。”伍德赛德曾就投资以色列利维坦气田的计划与包括诺贝尔能源公司在内的一些公司接洽。
伍德赛德在澳大利亚的拟建项目面临延期，这笔交易本可使其在以色列新生天然气行业中占据一席之地。伍德赛德去年放弃了在西澳大利亚建造陆上炼油厂以开采Browse气田资源的计划。公司估计该项交易将花费超过800亿澳元（约合740亿美元）。
墨尔本IG公司的市场分析师Evan Lucas周三表示：“利维坦就像Browse气田。它投资巨大，但回报率非常低。”
瑞银在墨尔本的分析师Nik Burns周三表示，鉴于目前世界主要油气生产商正在出售资产，伍德赛德可能会寻求收购以提高产量。他说，该公司也可能考虑将原本预留给利维坦项目的10亿美元以额外红利的方式回馈股东。
詹乐乾 摘译自《每日星报》，2014-5-23
原文如下：
Woodside scraps $2.6B Israeli gas deal after talks fail
Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Australia’s second-biggest oil and gas producer, scrapped an agreement to buy a quarter of Israel’s largest natural gas field for as much as $2.6 billion after talks to complete the deal collapsed.
“Negotiations between the parties failed to reach a commercially acceptable outcome,” the Perth-based company said Wednesday in a statement. Woodside had been in talks with a group including Noble Energy Inc. to invest in the venture in Israel’s Leviathan gas field.
The deal would have put Woodside in the middle of Israel’s nascent natural gas industry as the company’s proposed projects in Australia face delays. Woodside last year ditched plans to build an onshore processing plant in Western Australia to exploit its Browse gas resources. The company estimated that proposal would have cost more than AUS $80 billion ($74 billion).
“Leviathan felt like Browse,” Evan Lucas, a market strategist at IG Ltd. in Melbourne, said Wednesday. “It was going to be hugely costly for a very low rate of return.”
