以色列德莱克为列维坦气田融资22.5亿美元

据路透社8月5日耶路撒冷报道，以色列德莱克钻井公司周三表示，该公司将以6.28%的平均利息发行22.5亿美元的国际债券，以帮助其为以色列地中海沿岸的Leviathan天然气项目的开发融资。

在路演之后，Delek表示，此次债券发行--分为四个系列，预计将于2023年、2025年、2027年和2030年到期，需求量达了70亿美元，其中超过90%的募集金额来自国际投资者。

该公司表示，此次发行是自COVID-19爆发以来全球市场上基础设施领域规模最大的一次，也是2020年规模最大的一次。

未来几天将开始在国际市场和以色列TACT-Institutional上进行债券交易。

德莱克集团（Delek Group）旗下的德莱克钻井公司（Delek Drilling）表示，发行后将回购不超过5,000万美元的现有债券，包括用于为规模较小的塔玛天然气项目融资的债券。

以色列价值36亿美元的Leviathan油田由Delek、德克萨斯州的Noble Energy和Ratio Oil共同拥有，于2019年底开始投产，目前已经向以色列，埃及和约旦供应天然气。

上个月，雪佛龙公司表示将以50亿美元的股票收购Noble。

沈韩晔摘译自 路透社

原文如下：

Delek Drilling sells $2.25 bln of bonds to finance Leviathan gas field

Israel's Delek Drilling said on Wednesday it will pay an average interest of 6.28 percent in a $2.25 billion international bond offering to help it finance development of the Leviathan natural gas project off Israel's Mediterranean coast.

Following a road show, Delek said demand in the bond issue -- divided into four series expected to mature in 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2030 -- reached $7 billion, with over 90 per cent of the amount raised coming from international investors.

The offering, it said, was the largest in the infrastructures sector in the global market since the outbreak of COVID-19, and one of the largest in 2020.

Trade in the bonds on international markets and on the Israeli TACT-Institutional will begin over the next few days.

Delek Drilling, controlled by conglomerate Delek Group , has said that after the offering it would buy back up to $50 million of its existing bonds, including those used to finance the smaller Tamar gas project.

Israel's $3.6 billion Leviathan field - co-owned by Delek, Texas-based Noble Energy and Ratio Oil - started production in late 2019 and is already supplying gas to Israel, Egypt and Jordan.

Last month, Chevron Corp said it would buy Noble for $5 billion in stock.