「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 company’s 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 world’s largest offshore oil and gas operators.
“This transaction will significantly increase Sinochem’s 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 Statoil’s 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 Group’s 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 group’s 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 Statoil’s Peregrino production director Johan Kr. Mikkelsen.
The Peregrino field’s 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 FPSO’s 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.
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)は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&P(Exploration & 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との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