中国石化新闻网讯 据油价网1月4日报道，路透社援引不愿透露姓名的消息人士的话报道，日本东京燃气公司即将敲定收购美国天然气生产商Rockcliff Energy的交易。
路透社消息人士称，该交易价值约46亿美元，其中包括承担债务。实际买家将是这家日本公司位于得克萨斯州的子公司TG自然资源公司。
Rockcliff Energy活跃在Haynesville页岩区块，日产量约为10亿立方英尺。该公司目前由Quantum Energy Partners所有。
TG Natural Resources也活跃在Haynesville区块，日产量约为3.3亿立方英尺。
据路透社报道，此举可能被视为日本能源公司在友好司法管辖区确保化石燃料供应的最新举措，尽管与此同时，东京燃气公司最近将其在澳大利亚四个液化天然气项目的权益出售给了一家美国私募股权公司。
和欧洲一样，日本也在努力使其石油和天然气来源多样化，以减少对产能大国的依赖。去年，日本能源公司与美国和阿曼签署了一系列液化天然气供应协议，以推进这些多元化计划。
除了化石燃料供应多样化之外，日本在核能方面也做出了180度大转弯。2011年福岛核灾难后，日本领导人采取了反核立场，但随着能源危机的爆发，这种立场开始发生变化：去年年底，日本产业部下属的一个专家小组决定，日本将允许开发新的核反应堆，并允许现有反应堆在目前的60年限制之后继续运行。
寿琳玲 编译自 油价网
原文如下：
Japanese Firm Closes In>Japanese Tokyo Gas is close to finalizing a deal for the acquisition of U.S. natural gas producer Rockcliff Energy, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources close to the negotiations.
The value of the deal, which would include the assumption of debt, is seen at some $4.6 billion, the Reuters sources said. The actual buyer would be a subsidiary of the Japanese firm based in Texas - TG Natural Resources.
Rockcliff Energy is active in the Haynesville shale play, with a daily output of some 1 billion cubic feet daily. It is currently owned by Quantum Energy Partners.
TG Natural Resources is also active in the Haynesville play, with a daily output of about 330 million cubic feet.
The move, according to the Reuters report, could be seen as the latest move by a Japanese energy company to secure fossil fuel supply in a friendly jurisdiction, even though at the same time Tokyo Gas recently sold its interests in four LNG projects in Australia to a U.S. private equity firm.
Like Europe, Japan is trying to diversify its sources of oil and gas. Last year, Japanese energy companies signed a series of deals for LNG deliveries from the United States and Oman to advance these diversification plans.
In addition to fossil fuel supply diversification, Japan has made a U-turn on nuclear energy. After the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Japanese leaders have taken an anti-nuclear stance but with the energy crisis this has begun to change: at the end of last year, a panel of experts under the Japanese Ministry of Industry decided that Japan would allow the development of new nuclear reactors and allow available reactors to operate after the current limit of 60 years.
