据石油新闻2021年1月21日伦敦报道，埃克森美孚公司和挪威投资公司HitecVision在1月21日表示，在HitecVision帮助埃克森美孚公司退出挪威之后，埃克森美孚公司时下正在谈判将其位于英国北海的资产出售给HitecVision及其英国实体NeoEnergy公司。
两家公司在各自的公司声明中证实，他们时下正在就HitecVision/NeoEnergy公司收购埃克森美孚公司在北海中部和北部的上游资产进行“独家谈判”。
HitecVision表示，如果谈判成功，双方预计将在今年第一季度内签署资产出售协议，并在今年晚些时候完成交易。
埃克森美孚公司表示，“谈判可能无法达成协议。”“如果达成协议，我们将通知我们的利益相关者。”
埃克森美孚公司从1964年起就是英国北海石油生产的先驱之一，该公司主要与壳牌公司在包括目前正处于退役过程中的布伦特油田在内的北海油田进行合作。
埃克森美孚公司在英国的投资组合包括大约30个油田的股份，这些油田都由其他公司担任作业者，其中大部分是壳牌公司。
壳牌公司在英国北海的最大资产之一是海鸥油田的44.5%的股份，壳牌公司作为一个天然气基础设施中心正在重新开发这个油田。
自世纪之交以来，北海核心地区的产量一直在下降，埃克森美孚公司没有涉足设得兰群岛西部高产的深水项目。
2019年，埃克森美孚公司从其英国资产中平均每天获得2.3万桶石油和2.02亿立方英尺天然气。
李峻 编译自 石油新闻
原文如下：
ExxonMobil in talks to sell UK North Sea assets to Norway investor HitecVision
ExxonMobil is in talks to sell its UK North Sea assets to Norwegian investor HitecVision and its UK entity NeoEnergy, the companies said Jan. 21, after HitecVision was instrumental in ExxonMobil's exit from Norway.
In separate statements, the companies confirmed they were in "exclusive negotiations" for HitecVision/Neo to buy ExxonMobil's upstream assets in the central and northern North Sea.
If successful, talks are "expected to result in a signed sales agreement in the first quarter, with close later in the year," HitecVision said.
"There is a possibility negotiations may not conclude with an agreement," ExxonMobil said. "If an agreement is reached, we will notify our stakeholders."
ExxonMobil was Its UK portfolio comprises stakes in about 30 producing fields, all of them operated by other companies, for the most part Shell.
One of the largest assets is a 44.5% stake in the Shearwater field, which Shell is redeveloping as a gas infrastructure hub.
Production in the core North Sea has been declining since the turn of the millennium, and ExxonMobil has not ventured into more prolific deepwater projects in the West of Shetland area.
In 2019, ExxonMobil derived 23,000 b/d of oil and 202 MMcf/d of gas from its UK assets.
