石油设备网讯 据路透社3月20日米兰、法兰克福报道,据三位消息人士周三透露,德国公用事业公司Uniper正与澳大利亚第一国有投资机构基金(First State Investments)进行深入谈判,以出售其在意大利LNG终端的股份,这引发了意大利方面对战略资产出售的担忧。
其中一位消息人士表示:“目前还没有最终协议,但该基金即将提出具有约束力的报价。”他补充说,该协议估计,该终端价值约为8亿欧元(合9.09亿美元)。
能源公司Uniper持有OLT液化天然气终端48.24%的股份,而意大利综合型公用事业公司Iren拥有49.07%的股份,这两家公司在2013年投资了约9亿欧元建造了该工厂。
意大利政府已将LNG终端列入战略资产清单,并可行使所谓的黄金权力,通过附加条件或禁止交易来保护这些终端。
周三,意大利外交部副部长Guglielmo Picchi在推特的一次讲话中表示,政府应在任何旨在保护国家安全的出售前进行预防性审查。他说:“在德国向澳大利亚出售意大利的战略资产之前,需要更多的谨慎和共享。”
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下:
Uniper talks to sell Italy LNG plant stake raise eyebrows in Rome
Germany’s Uniper is in advanced talks with Australian fund First State Investments to sell its stake in a liquefied natural gas terminal in Italy, three sources said on Wednesday, raising concerns in Rome over the sale of strategic assets.
“There’s no final deal yet but First State is about to make a binding bid,” one of the sources said, adding the deal valued the terminal at around 800 million euros ($909 million).
Energy firm Uniper holds a 48.24 percent stake in the OLT LNG terminal, while Italian multi-utility Iren owns 49.07 percent. The two shareholders invested around 900 million euros to build the plant back in 2013.
Italy’s government has placed LNG terminals on a list of strategic assets and can exercise so-called golden powers to protect them by attaching conditions or forbidding the deal.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Italy’s Foreign Office Junior Minister Guglielmo Picchi said the government should carry out a preventive review before any sale to protect national security.
“More caution and sharing is needed before (strategic assets) are sold by Germans to Australians,” he said.