据油价网2021年8月11日报道，美国石油巨头埃克森美孚公司的女发言人朱莉?金周三告诉路透社记者，该公司已开始在阿肯色州费耶特维尔页岩探区销售天然气资产。
自疫情爆发前以来，埃克森美孚公司一直在出销和剥离资产，专注于二叠纪盆地、圭亚那和巴西等关键战略业务。
埃克森美孚公司董事长兼首席执行官达伦·伍兹在今年3月的投资者日上表示：“我们在圭亚那、巴西和美国二叠纪盆地等上游资源增加90%的投资，在每桶35美元或以下的情况下可以产生10%的回报。”
在专注于这些地区的同时，埃克森美孚公司也在寻求剥离其他地方的资产，阿肯色州的页岩气资产现在正准备出售。
埃克森美孚公司发言人对路透社表示：“我们正在向可能对这些资产有兴趣的第三方提供信息。”埃克森美孚公司拒绝置评谁是潜在的竞购者。
据XTO能源公司称，埃克森美孚公司的子公司XTO能源公司在阿肯色州的16个县经营着超过66.2万英亩的土地，日产天然气2.71亿立方英尺。
一位知情人士告诉路透社，私营企业Merit 能源公司正在评估埃克森美孚公司拟出售的资产。Merit 能源公司在2018年从必和必拓手中收购了该地区的土地。
今年2月，埃克森美孚公司表示，将以逾10亿美元的价格将其在英国北海中部和北部的大部分非经营性资产出售给私募股权基金HitecVision。
埃克森美孚高级副总裁尼尔?查普曼在2月份表示：“我们继续通过剥离不太具有战略意义的资产，集中投资于我们在业内最优秀的优势项目，来提高我们的投资组合的高等级。”
伍兹在7月底的第二季度财报电话会议上表示，“为了加强我们资产的收益和现金流潜力，我们的计划将继续推进高回报、有利的项目，并通过增值性撤资来提高我们现有资产的评级。”
李峻 编译自 油价网
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Exxon Continues To Shed Shale Assets
ExxonMobil has started marketing gas assets in the Fayetteville Shale in Arkansas, the US supermajor’s spokeswoman Julie King told Reuters align="justify"> Since before the pandemic, Exxon has been marketing and divesting assets, focusing align="justify"> “90 percent of our upstream investments in resource additions, including in Guyana, Brazil, and the U.S. Permian Basin, generate a 10 percent return at $35 per barrel or less,” Exxon’s chairman and chief executive Darren Woods said align="justify"> While focusing align="justify"> “We are providing information to third parties that may have an interest in the assets,” Exxon’s spokeswoman King told Reuters. The company declined to comment which could be the potential bidders.
Exxon’s subsidiary XTO Energy operates more than 662,000 acres in 16 counties in Arkansas, with production at 271 million cubic feet of gas per day, according to XTO Energy.
Privately owned Merit Energy—which had acquired acreage in the area from BHP in 2018—is assessing the assets that Exxon has put up for sale, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
In February this year, ExxonMobil said it would sell most of its non-operated assets in the UK’s central and northern North Sea to private equity fund HitecVision for more than $1 billion.
“We continue to high-grade our portfolio by divesting assets that are less strategic and focusing our investments align="justify"> On the Q2 earnings call at the end of July, CEO Woods said:
“To strengthen the earnings and cash flow potential of our assets, our plans will continue to advance high-return, advantaged projects and high-grade our existing assets through accretive divestments.”
