中國石化新聞網訊 據英國《每日星報》5月22日消息，澳大利亞第二大石油和天然氣生產商伍德賽德石油公司在談判破裂后解除了購買以色列最大天然氣田四分之一股權的協議。該交易涉及金額高達26億美元。

總部位于珀斯的伍德賽德公司周三在一份聲明中表示：“雙方談判未能達成商業上可接受的結果。”伍德賽德曾就投資以色列利維坦氣田的計劃與包括諾貝爾能源公司在內的一些公司接洽。

伍德賽德在澳大利亞的擬建項目面臨延期，這筆交易本可使其在以色列新生天然氣行業中占據一席之地。伍德賽德去年放棄了在西澳大利亞建造陸上煉油廠以開采Browse氣田資源的計劃。公司估計該項交易將花費超過800億澳元（約合740億美元）。

墨爾本IG公司的市場分析師Evan Lucas周三表示：“利維坦就像Browse氣田。它投資巨大，但回報率非常低。”

瑞銀在墨爾本的分析師Nik Burns周三表示，鑒于目前世界主要油氣生產商正在出售資產，伍德賽德可能會尋求收購以提高產量。他說，該公司也可能考慮將原本預留給利維坦項目的10億美元以額外紅利的方式回饋股東。

詹樂乾 摘譯自《每日星報》，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.”