图洛以5.75亿美元出售乌干达项目股份

据路透社4月23日报道，图洛石油（Tullow Oil）表示，道达尔已同意以5.75亿美元的价格收购其在乌干达联合陆上油田的全部股权，这是该公司今年筹资10亿美元以解决28亿美元债务的目标之一。

图洛石油表示，通过出售该项目，公司将获得5亿美元现金，一旦项目的最终投资决定达成，图洛将获得7500万美元。该公司股价自去年4月以来已下跌约90%，周三市值约为2.85亿美元。

预计交易将在今年下半年完成。

道达尔首席执行官Patrick Pouyanne在一份声明中表示:“我们很高兴地宣布，我们与图洛达成了一项新的协议。根据公司低成本来获取长期资源的战略，我们以不到2美元/桶的价格与乌干达就达成了财政框架协议。”

该公司表示，出售所得将用于减少公司净债务，加强资产财务资产管理，并使公司朝着更为稳定的资本结构迈进。

邹勤 摘译自 路透社

原文如下：

Tullow exits Uganda project, sells stake to Total for $575 million

Tullow Oil (TLW.L) said that Total (TOTF.PA) has agreed to buy its entire stake in their joint onshore oil fields in Uganda for $575 million as part of its target to raise $1 billion this year to tackle its $2.8 billion debt pile.

Tullow, whose shares have shed around 90% since last April and whose market capitalisation was around $285 million on Wednesday, will receive $500 million in cash and $75 million once a final investment decision is reached on the project, it said on Thursday.

An agreement on a tax issue with the Ugandan authorities, which had delayed the sale of a smaller stake in the project to Total for months, has been reached in principle, Tullow said.

“We are pleased to announce that a new agreement has been reached with Tullow ... for less than $2 a barrel in line with our strategy of acquiring long-term resources at low cost, and that we have an agreement with the Uganda on the fiscal framework,” Total Chief Patrick Pouyanne said in a statement.

Money from the sale will be used “to reduce Tullow’s net debt, strengthening the balance sheet and moving Tullow towards a more conservative capital structure,” the company said.