石油设备网讯 据路透社法兰克福报道，上周五，德国能源集团Uniper同意以约4亿欧元（约4.52亿美元）的价格，将其在意大利液化天然气（LNG）终端的股份出售给澳大利亚第一国有投资基金。
一旦收购完成，Uniper出售的OLT近海液化天然气工厂（Toscana号）48.2%的股份，将为其带来约3.4亿欧元的净收益，随着该集团试图扩大在德国的液化天然气业务，这笔资金的注入非常值得欢迎。
该公司首席运营官埃克哈特·姆勒在一份声明中表示：“我们一直认为，选定的现有天然气基础设施投资，作为战略非核心资产，可能适合进行投资组合轮换。”
他补充道：“这意味着我们将把销售收入再投资到增长型业务中，从而产生有吸引力的回报。”
这笔交易发生两天前，消息人士告诉路透社，德国Uniper和澳大利亚联邦银行资产管理部门第一国有投资基金就出售股份问题进行深入谈判，预计这将在意大利引发担忧。
意大利综合型公用事业公司Iren拥有49.1%的股份，LNG航运集团Golar持有其余的2.7%股份。
Uniper(芬兰电力公司Fortum拥有其49.99%的股份)计划在其德国本土市场建立LNG终端，竞争对手德国莱茵集团也计划在德国建立LNG终端。
OLT运营的浮式储存再气化装置Toscana，位于比萨和利沃诺之间，距离托斯卡纳海岸22公里（14英里），年产能为每年37.5亿立方米。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
Uniper sells stake in Italian LNG plant in 400 million euro deal
German energy group Uniper has agreed to sell its stake in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Italy to Australian fund First State Investments for about 400 million euros ($452 million), it said on Friday.
The sale of the 48.2 percent stake in OLT Offshore LNG Toscana will hand Uniper net proceeds of about 340 million euros once the deal closes later this year, a welcome cash injection as the group tries to expand its LNG business in Germany.
“We’ve always said that selected existing gas infrastructure investments which we consider as strategic non-core assets may be suitable for portfolio rotation,” Uniper Chief Operating Officer Eckhardt Ruemmler said in a statement.
“That means that we would reinvest the sale proceeds in our growth businesses that generate attractive returns,” he added.
The deal comes two days after sources told Reuters that Uniper and First State, the asset management arm of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, were in advanced talks over the stake sale, which is expected to raise concerns in Rome.
The terminal’s other shareholders are Italian multi-utility Iren, which owns 49.1 percent, and LNG shipping group Golar LNG, which holds the remaining 2.7 percent.
Uniper, in which Finland’s Fortum owns 49.99 percent, plans to set up an LNG terminal in its home market of Germany, where rival RWE plans to do the same.
OLT operates the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Toscana, located 22 km (14 miles) off the Tuscan coast between Pisa and Livorno, and has a capacity of 3.75 billion cubic meters a year.
