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「人民網日本語版」2010年5月24日

中国中化、ブラジル油田に30億ドル出資

中国中化株式有限公司(Sinochem)が23日明らかにしたところによると、同公司はこのほどノルウェーの国営石油会社スタトイルとの間で合意に達し、ブラジル沖のペレグリーノ油田の権益の40%を対価 30億7000万ドルで買収することが決定した。同公司の海外における買収としては過去最大規模のものになる。「国際金融報」が伝えた。

ペレグリーノ油田はブラジルの海岸線から85キロメートルの海上にあり、2011年に生産を開始する見込みだ。今回の取引後も、スタトイルは引き続き同油田の権益の60%を保有して、開発主体であり続ける。スタトイルはノルウェーに本社を置く国際エネルギー企業で、世界最大の海上油田探査・開発企業の一つだ。

今回の買収劇を通じて、中化公司はスタトイルとパートナー関係を樹立した。中化公司の韓根生総経理によると、支払う対価の算定基準日は2010年1月1日とし、最終的な買収金額は買収の慣例に基づいて今後調整が行われる。今回の買収は中化公司の石油探査・開発業務を大幅に拡大し、世界的な石油化学工業企業としての中化公司の業界における地位を固めることになるという。

Sinochemは国営の石油トレーディング企業であるが、探鉱開発,生産,精製まで一貫操業を行う会社を目指している。

2010-05-22 Sinochem

Sinochem to become 40% partner of Statoil in Peregrino Oil Field in Brazil

Sinochem Corporation has agreed to purchase a 40% interest in the Peregrino field offshore Brazil from Statoil ASA for a total consideration of USD 3,070 million.

The Peregrino field is located in the Campos basin offshore Brazil and is expected to start production in 2011. The transaction will be the largest foreign acquisition by Sinochem Corporation to date and will significantly increase the companys exploration and production business. Following completion of the transaction, Statoil will maintain 60% ownership and the operatorship of the field. Statoil is an international energy company headquartered in Norway. The company is among the worlds largest offshore oil and gas operators.

This transaction will significantly increase Sinochems interests in the exploration and production business and consolidate our position as a global player in the oil and chemicals business. We are delighted to have agreed the purchase of a significant interest in an asset of such high quality. And we are also pleased to have a partner with such depth of experience and quality of reputation as Statoil. We look forward to working closely with Statoil in the development and operations of this substantial field and to building a long term partnership relationship with them, said Mr Han Gensheng, President of Sinochem Corporation.

The transaction is subject to government approvals in Brazil and China. The consideration is based on an effective date of January 1st 2010 and subject to customary adjustments.

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2010/5/21 Statoil

Sinochem to become 40% partner of Statoil in Peregrino Oil Field in Brazil


Statoil ASA has agreed to sell 40% of the Peregrino field offshore Brazil to Sinochem Group. Statoil maintains 60% ownership and the operatorship of the field which is set to start production in early 2011.

Sinochem Group will pay a total of USD 3,070 million in cash for the 40% share of the Peregrino field, located in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.

The transaction confirms the high quality of the Peregrino asset, reflecting Statoil's value added through the field development. The transaction demonstrates Statoils ability to leverage its industrial competence developed at the Norwegian Continental Shelf, and realise value for our shareholders. The divestment is a natural step in our continuous effort to optimise our portfolio, says Helge Lund, CEO of Statoil.

We are pleased with the transaction and look forward to partner with Sinochem Group in the further development and operations of the large Peregrino field. Both companies see many opportunities for value creation through increased recovery and exploration for additional resources in the decades to come. I am pleased that we also have agreed to sign a MoU to jointly investigate further opportunities in Brazil and elsewhere, says Lund.

The transaction is subject to government approvals in Brazil and China. The consideration is based on an effective date of January 1st 2010 and subject to customary adjustments.

The divestment of a 40% share of Peregrino will reduce Statoil
s equity production guiding for 2012 by 40,000 boepd to a range of 2,060 000 ? 2,160 000 boepd.

Brazil will continue to form a key part of Statoil
s international strategy. The company remains committed to complete the Peregrino development as planned, operate the field efficiently, and to explore further growth opportunities in the region.

The Peregrino field is located 85 km offshore Brazil in the Campos basin at about 100 meters of water depth in BMC-7 and BMC-47. The first phase of the development includes two drilling- and wellhead platforms and a ship-shaped floating production, storage and offload unit (FPSO). The field was discovered in 1994. Statoil (then Norsk Hydro) acquired 50% in the discovery in 2005, and the remaining 50% and its operatorship in 2008.

Sinochem Group, incorporated in China in 1950, is 100% state owned and is China
s 4th largest oil company and the largest integrated agrichemical product and service provider. It has been consistently named as a Fortune Global 500 company and was most recently ranked as the 170th largest company. In 2009 Sinochem Groups sales revenue was approximately US$36 billion, and profit US$0.9billion. Sinochem Group has operated in the international oil business for several decades and started making its first overseas oil and gas investments in 2003. Since then it has successfully completed approximately $1.8 billion of overseas acquisitions in the energy sector, focusing primarily in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.

Statoil is an international energy company headquartered in Norway. It has more than 35 years of experience from oil and gas production on the Norwegian continental shelf and has currently operations in 40 countries. Statoil is among the world
s largest offshore oil and gas operators and is seen as a leader in technology and resource management. Statoil has 29,000 employees worldwide, and is listed on the New York and Oslo stock exchanges with a market capitalisation of approximately USD 70 billion. Equity production in 2009 was 1,962 000 boepd and booked reserves of oil and gas is reported at 5.4 billion barrels. For further information, please visit www.statoil.com.

Statoil has completed heavy offshore lifting of two wellhead platforms on the Peregrino oil field offshore Brazil. The development is the groups largest offshore project outside the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

'The Peregrino project is well prepared and eager to continue with carrying out the remaining offshore hook-up and completion work on both platforms,' says project director for the Peregrino project Morten Ruud. The platform installations were performed by the heavy lift vessel Hermod. The two jacket substructures for platform A and B were installed on the Peregrino Field late last year. Work on the two platforms will now enter the hook-up and completion phase, allowing for production drilling planned later this year. 'The plan calls for a total of 30 horizontal production wells to be drilled, together with seven water injection wells,' says Statoils Peregrino production director Johan Kr. Mikkelsen.

The Peregrino fields floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) is scheduled to arrive on the field for hook up and commissioning in 2010. The vessel is being built by Maersk at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore. Installation of the FPSOs mooring systems concluded earlier this year and was done by the offshore construction vessel Boa Deep C.

Peregrino is located 85 km off the coast of Brazil, at a water depth of up to 100 metres. First oil from this field is expected to come on stream by 2011 and continue up to 2040.


Sinochem International & Halcyon Agri Join Forces to Create a Global Natural Rubber Powerhouse
  • Sinochem International to become majority shareholder in Halcyon Agri
  • Halcyon Agri to acquire Sinochem International’s natural rubber business, including its 51% majority stake in SGX-listed GMG Global Ltd, trading business, and China and Malaysia processing factories
  • Creates world’s leading and most comprehensive natural rubber supply chain manager with combined revenues in excess of US$2.3 billion
  • Transactions expected to close by Q3 2016, subject to certain conditions and approvals

Sinochem International Corporation and Halcyon Agri Corporation Limited today announced that they have signed, together with certain Halcyon Agri shareholders, definitive agreements to bring about a combination of their natural rubber assets to create the world’s leading natural rubber supply chain manager. The businesses will be combined under Halcyon Agri, which will continue to be listed on the SGX.

Global natural rubber powerhouse

The transaction would create the world's largest and most comprehensive natural rubber supply chain manager with strong capabilities across each segment of the supply chain.
In the upstream segment, the combined business would have 153,000 ha of land in Africa and South East Asia.
In the midstream processing segment, the combined business would have 35 processing facilities spanning Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, China and Africa with a total annual processing capacity of approximately 1.5 million tonnes.
The global distribution strength of the combined business would be unparalleled, with an extensive distribution network centred around key hubs in China, Asia, Europe and the United States and annual natural rubber and latex sales capability in excess of 2 million tonnes.

Structure and terms

The transactions are designed to deliver an efficient combination of the natural rubber assets of Sinochem International and Halcyon Agri.

Sinochem International will acquire a 30.07% shareholding in Halcyon Agri for S$0.75 cents per share in cash and make a mandatory general offer (“MGO”) to all shareholders of Halcyon Agri at the same price.
Certain shareholders of Halcyon Agri have also provided undertakings such that Sinochem International’s shareholding in Halcyon Agri following completion of the MGO will be no less than 53.98%.

Subsequent to the MGO, Halcyon Agri will make a voluntary general offer (“VGO”) for GMG Global Ltd at an exchange ratio of 0.9333 Halcyon Shares for each GMG Global Share. Sinochem International has undertaken to accept the VGO in respect of its 51.1% shareholding.

GMG is a SGX Mainboard-listed and Singapore-based integrated natural rubber producer, with a primary focus on the production and supply of premium natural rubber products to the European, American and Asian markets.

Finally, Halcyon Agri will also acquire Sinochem’s natural rubber processing assets in China and Malaysia and trading businesses, for consideration of 280 million Halcyon Shares.

Following completion of the transactions, Sinochem will be the majority shareholder of Halcyon Agri, which will be the holding company of the expanded group.

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About Sinochem International

Sinochem International is a large state-owned holding company engaging in industrial investment, logistics, trading and distribution in the fields of natural rubber, fine chemicals, agrochemicals, chemical logistics, chemical distribution, and other sub-sectors international chemical business), with customers from over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Sinochem International is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock code: 600500).

Sinochem International’s natural rubber business division, with over 60 years’ operation, is the earliest entity in China to engage in natural rubber trade. Its business, which integrates international and domestic operation, covers natural rubber plantation, production and processing, marketing and value-added service, and other parts of the industrial chain. As the biggest and strongest rubber business service provider in China, and a service provider in natural rubber resources industry with its core competitiveness on international market, Sinochem International has resources in South East Asia, West Africa, and China’s provinces of Hainan and Yunnan; its markets and major customers include those in Asia, Europe, Americas and other parts of the world.

About Halcyon Agri

Halcyon Agri is a natural rubber supply chain manager, supporting the world’s growing mobility needs through the origination, production and distribution of natural rubber. The Group owns 14 natural rubber processing facilities in Indonesia and Malaysia and produces sustainable, premium Technically Specified Rubber under its proprietary HEVEAPRO brand. It distributes HEVEAPRO and a range of other natural rubber grades, including latex, to an international customer base through its network of warehouses and sales offices in South East Asia, China, South Africa, the United States and Europe. Halcyon Agri’s workforce totals approximately 4,000 people and its aggregate natural rubber distribution capacity is approximately 1 million tonnes per annum.

 



July 1, 2018 Reuters 

China's ChemChina, Sinochem set to merge

 
Chinese state-owned Sinochem Group and ChemChina will merge to create a new company, and Sinochem Chairman Ning Gaoning will become the chairman of ChemChina, financial publication Caixin reported late on Saturday.
 

Reuters has reported that the two companies were in merger talks to create the world’s biggest industrial chemicals firm worth around $120 billion, to be led by the head of Sinochem.

Sinochem Chairman Ning will serve as Chairman and Party Secretary of ChemChina, while ChemChina’s long-serving Chairman Ren Jianxin retires, Caixin reported, citing sources close to the companies.

The personnel change was announced on Saturday at ChemChina’s office by officials from State-owned Asset Supervision and Administration Commission and the Ministry of Organization, the report said.

“However, there is no definite plan for how to form a new company,” the publication said.

A Sinochem spokesman declined to comment on the personnel changes, or the possible merger of the companies.

A ChemChina media official did not respond to a request for comment.

Talks to create a Chinese chemicals powerhouse were first reported in late 2016, but were dismissed by both companies as rumor.

Reuters reported that the two companies accelerated negotiations around May last year, after regulators cleared ChemChina’s $43 billion acquisition of Swiss pesticides and seeds group Syngenta.

Beijing sees a Sinochem and ChemChina deal as a blueprint for streamlining and consolidating its sprawling, debt-heavy state-owned enterprises, leaving fewer, but more powerful, national champions.

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中国化工集団公司(ChemChina)は2004年5月に国営のChina National Blue Star (Group) (藍星グループ)と China Haohua Chemical Industrial (Group) (昊華化工)を統合して設立された。

同社はこれまでに多数の買収を行ってきた。

ChemChina は、2005年10月に豪州の石化会社Qenosを買収した。

2006年1月にはCVC Capital Partners から子会社で動物用栄養製品メーカーの Adisseoを買収している。

ChemChina の中国藍星は2006年10月26日にフランスのローディアとの間でローディアのシリコーン事業を買収する契約を締結した。

2006/10/30 中国化工集団公司(ChemChina)の海外進出

ChemChinaは2015年3月23日、イタリアのタイヤ大手Pirelli を買収すると発表した。

2015/3/27 ChemChina、伊タイヤ大手ピレリを買収

ChemChina は2016年1月11日、ドイツの射出成型機械メーカーのKraussMaffei をカナダのOnex Corp.から925百万ユーロで買収すると発表した。

2016/1/15 中国化工集団、射出成型機械製造の独KraussMaffei を買収 

ChemChinaは2016年2月、スイスの農薬・種子メーカー、Syngentaを430億ドル余りで買収することで合意した。中国企業による過去最大規模の買収となる。

2016/2/5 中国化工集団(ChemChina)、スイス農薬のSyngentaを買収 

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中国中化集団公司(Sinochem国務院国有資産監督管理委員会の管理下の主要な国営企業の一つ。2009年の“Fortune Global 500”では170位にランクされている。

1950年設立で、農業資材、エネルギー、化学品、ファイナンス、不動産の5つのセグメントから成っている。
2008年の売上高は452億ドル、純損益は9.44億ドルである。

1)農業資材(肥料、農薬、種子)

・中国最大の肥料のサプライヤーで、中国に13箇所に工場を持ち、輸入品を含め2008年の販売数量は1,622万トンで、中国でのシェアは18%となっている。
子会社Sinofert (中化化肥)が中心となっている。

・農薬の2008年の売上高は70億人民元で、中国の農薬の輸入、輸出の最大の会社となっている。

2007年に旧化学工業省の下のファインケミカルの研究開発機関であった瀋陽化工研究院(SYRICI
)と合併した。
2008年には浙江石油化学の大株主となり、その子会社の浙江化工科技(南中国)を傘下に収め、SYRICI(北中国)と合わせ技術力を強化した。

2008年に瀋陽
New Pesticide Industrial Park の建設を開始した。

・種子では2007年に 中国種子集団(China National Seed Group)と合併した。 

2)エネルギー

Sinochemは中国の国営石油会社4社の1社である。
(他は、
Petro China:中国石油天然ガス、Sinopec:中国石油化工、CNOOC :中国海洋石油)

元々国営の石油トレーディング企業であるが、探鉱開発,生産,精製まで一貫操業を行う会社を目指している。

E&PExploration & Production)については、主に国外の石油ガス田買収や製油所への資本参加等により参入を図る計画で、2000年に海外油ガス田の探鉱開発を行う「中化石油勘探開発」を設立,2002年に2億500万米ドルでノルウェーの油田サービス会社Petroleum Geo-Serviceの子会社Atlantis社を買収し,オマーン,UAE,チュニジア等の石油ガス権益を取得した。

8月12日、同社はロンドンで上場しているEmerald Energy社の全株を5億3,200万ポンド(8億7,500万US ドル相当)で買収すると発表した。これにより、シリア、コロンビア、ペルーにおける石油・天然ガス事業に乗り出す。

2012/8/9 スペインのRepsol、Sinopecにエクアドルの石油権益の一部を譲渡

3)Chemical

当初からのコア事業の1つで、主たる製品は、フッ素化学品、医薬品(原体、中間体を含む)、ゴム製品、石油化学原料などである。

鎮江奇美化工(Zhenjiang Chi Mei Chemical) は本年2月に江蘇省鎮江市で10万トンのABSプラントをスタートさせたが、同プラントの一部の機器は、Sinochemから購入した。

Sinochemは江蘇省太倉市で6万トンのABSと2万トンのPTMEGプラントの建設を計画したが、ABSについては計画を中止。現在太倉には、2万トンのPTMEGと2万トンのHFC-134a (フロン代替)がある。

2009/2/26  中国のABSメーカー