据油价网8月27日消息称，据印度报业托拉斯周四援引业内消息人士的话称，中东和俄罗斯的大型石油公司有兴趣加入美国投资基金的竞标，以购买印度第三大炼油商巴拉特石油有限公司的多数股权。
印度政府正寻求出售其在BPCL所持的全部53%股份，这可能是该国规模最大的私有化交易。
PTI 的消息人士称，据报道，俄罗斯最大的石油生产商、国有控股的俄罗斯石油公司以及中东的一些顶级石油公司有兴趣加入 Apollo Global 和 I Squared Capital对BPCL的竞标。
提交初始投标文件的截止日期是2020年11月。届时，没有一家大型石油公司，也没有一家来自俄罗斯和中东的公司单独投标购买BPCL的多数股权。
但现在，据PTI消息人士称，一家国际石油巨头或一家来自中东的石油生产公司可能会加入基金已经提交的投标。
Apollo Global和I Squared Capital正与亿万富翁Anil Agarwal创立的Vedanta Resources争夺BPCL的多数股权。BPCL拥有印度逾14%的炼油产能和23%的燃料分销市场。
俄罗斯或中东石油公司有意占据印度炼油和燃料市场的大部分份额，那是有道理的，因为俄罗斯、沙特阿拉伯和其他主要海湾产油国正在争夺印度石油市场的份额。预计未来几十年，印度将成为增长最快的市场之一。
朱佳妮 摘译自 油价网
原文如下：
Oil Majors Interested In Buying India’s Third-Largest Refiner BPCL
Large oil companies from the Middle East and Russia are interested in joining the bids of U.S. investment funds for buying the majority stake in India’s third-biggest oil refiner, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), from the government, the Press Trust of India reported align="justify"> The Indian government is looking to sell its entire 53-percent stake in BPCL in what could be the biggest privatization deal in the country.
Russia’s largest oil producer, state-controlled Rosneft, as well as some of the top oil firms in the Middle East, are reportedly interested in joining align="justify"> The deadline for filing of the initial bids expired in November 2020. None of the Big Oil firms, nor any company from Russia and the Middle East had filed separate bids for buying the majority interest in BPCL by then.
But now, according to a PTI source, align="justify"> Apollo Global and I Squared Capital are competing with Vedanta Resources, founded by billionaire Anil Agarwal, for the majority stake in BPCL, which holds more than 14 percent of India’s oil refining capacity and 23 percent of the fuel distribution market.
A Russian or a Middle Eastern oil firm interested in taking a major portion of the Indian refining and fuel market would make sense because Russia, as well as Saudi Arabia and other major Gulf producers, are vying for a share of the Indian oil market, which is expected to be one of the fastest growing markets in the coming decades.
