据路透社墨尔本/纽约10月22日消息称，美国雅各布工程集团公司（JEC.N）已同意以33亿美元的价格将其能源、化工和资源业务出售给沃利帕森，这笔交易将使澳大利亚工程服务公司的规模扩大一倍。
继去年雅各布以33亿美元收购竞争对手CH2M Hill公司以及英国油田服务公司伍德集团以22亿英镑（29亿美元）收购阿美科福斯特惠勒公司之后，工程服务行业的重组仍在继续。
随着沃利帕森在石油价格暴跌后的三年低迷中走出来，并准备利用炼油和石化行业的增长，印度等国家正在建设大规模的新工厂。
沃利帕森首席执行官安德鲁伍德在一次电话会议上告诉分析师：“烃类化合物、矿物和金属都已走出谷底，远低于2013年的峰值水平。我们认为这对该行业来说是一个激动人心的时刻。”
美国宇航局太空项目最大的服务提供商雅各布斯表示，它现在将专注于增长更快、利润更高的业务领域，包括航空航天、技术和核项目以及建筑和基础设施。
该公司表示，此次收购将使沃利帕森成为全球最大的能源和资源专业服务供应商，它们在欧洲和北美拥有大量业务，与其在中东和亚洲的业务形成互补。
此次交易还将扩大其对炼油和石化行业的影响，伍德表示由于这些行业收益来源不像石油和天然气勘探和生产领域那样波动剧烈，因此这一领域颇具吸引力，而沃利帕森已经在这些领域处于领先地位。
曹海斌 摘译自 路透社
原文如下：
Australia's WorleyParsons to buy Jacobs energy, resources arm for $3.3 billion
U.S. firm Jacobs Engineering Group Inc (JEC.N) has agreed to sell its energy, chemicals and resources business to WorleyParsons (WOR.AX) for $3.3 billion, in a deal that will double the size of the Australian engineering services firm.
The deal continues a shake-up of the engineering services industry, following Jacobs’ $3.3 billion purchase of rival CH2M Hill Cos Ltd last year and the 2.2 billion pound ($2.9 billion) takeover of Amec Foster Wheeler by UK oilfield services firm John Wood Group.
It comes as WorleyParsons emerges from a three-year downturn following the oil price crash, and positions it to tap growth in the refining and petrochemical sectors, with countries like India building massive new plants.
“Hydrocarbons and minerals and metals are both coming off the bottom and are well below their peaks of 2013. We think this is an exciting time for the sector,” WorleyParsons Chief Executive Andrew Wood told analysts Jacobs, the largest service provider to the NASA space program, said it would now focus The acquisition would make WorleyParsons the world’s biggest provider of professional services in energy and resources, it said, with a large footprint in Europe and North America, complementing its exposure in the Middle East and Asia.
The transaction will also expand its exposure to the refining and petrochemicals sectors, which Wood said was appealing as the revenue streams are less volatile than oil and gas exploration and production, where WorleyParsons is already a leader.
