石油设备网讯 据今日油价网站4月8日消息 路透社援引沙特媒体的报道称，为了扩大与经济领域的合作，阿美计划与中小型企业签订约160亿美元的合同。
阿拉伯电视台援引沙特石油公司采购和供应副主管Mohammed bin Ayed al-Shamri的话称，沙特石油巨头每年在各种服务上花费约453.3亿美元（1700亿里亚尔）。这些钱中至少有一部分可以用来刺激中小型企业的增长，而这些企业正试图摆脱几十年来一直在为中小型企业提供石油的困境。
与阿美石油公司的未来增长战略相比，这个数字相形见绌。除了亚洲的几个炼油项目，这将花费几十亿美元，这家石油巨头也在以其他方式进行国际扩张，渴望实现多样化，而不仅仅是原油生产和出口。
去年11月，阿美石油首席执行官Amin Nasser表示，公司将在未来10年内花费5000亿美元进行国际扩张，其中五分之一专门用于石化项目，1600亿美元用于天然气项目。
Nasser指出，投资总额与700亿美元不同，该公司计划斥资购买当地石化巨头沙特基础工业公司的多数股权。沙特基础工业公司最近表示，该公司将以自身现金和通过国际债券筹集资金相结合的方式提供资金。
王磊 摘译自 今日油价
原文如下：
Aramco Eyes $16 Billion Investment In Small/Mid-size Businesses
Aramco is planning to spend some US$16 billion on contracts with small and medium-sized enterprises in a bid to expand cooperation with this segment of the economy, Reuters reports, citing Saudi media.
Every year, the Saudi oil giant spends some US$45.33 billion (170 billion riyal) on various services, Al Arabiya quoted the company’s deputy director of procurement and supply, Mohammed bin Ayed al-Shamri as saying. At least part of this money could be used to stimulate the growth of small and medium enterprises in an economy trying to wean itself off the oil that has been feeding it for decades.
The sum pales in comparison with Aramco’s growth strategy for the future. In addition to several refinery projects in Asia, which will cost it a few dozen billion dollars, the oil giant is also expanding internationally in other ways, eager to diversify away from just crude oil production and exports.
Last November, Aramco’s chief executive Amin Nasser said the company will spend US$500 billion over the next ten years to expand internationally, with a fifth of the total amount earmarked for petrochemical projects and US$160 billion for natural gas projects.
Nasser noted that the investment sum was separate from the US$70 billion it is planning to splash on the acquisition of a majority stake in local petrochemical major Sabic, which Aramco recently said it will fund with a combination of its own cash and money raised through an international bond.
