沙特阿美在行业低迷之际重新评估多元化计划

据道琼斯迪拜9月2日消息，知情人士透露，面对油价大幅下跌以及最近首次公开募股(IPO)带来的沉重股息负担，沙特阿拉伯国有石油巨头沙特阿美正在重新评估在国内与海外扩张的计划。

这些知情人士表示，沙特阿美正在放慢国内外投资扩张的脚步。在国外，沙特阿美正在评估一项斥资66亿美元在美国得克萨斯州Motiva炼油厂内扩大石化产品产量的计划。同时，沙特阿美公司还在评估与Sempra 能源公司合作在得克萨斯州的一个大型天然气项目，并暂停了对印度和巴基斯坦炼油厂的投资。在沙特国内，沙特阿美也将3月份宣布的把原油日产能力从目前的约1,200万桶提高到1,300万桶的计划推迟了一年。

沙特阿美未立即回复置评请求。

张春晓 摘译自 道琼斯

原文如下：

Saudi Aramco Slows Diversification Plans Amid Industry Downturn

Saudi Arabia's state oil giant is reviewing plans to expand at home and abroad in the face of sharply lower oil prices and a heavy dividend burden it assumed as part of its recent initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.

Saudi Aramco is now slowing down and reviewing a $6.6 billion plan to add petrochemical output at its Motiva refinery in Texas, these people said. It is also reviewing a big natural-gas project with Sempra Energy in the same state, and pausing investments in refineries in India and Pakistan, these people said. At home, Aramco is delaying by a year plans, announced in March, to boost crude production capacity to 13 million barrels a day, from currently about 12 million, these people said.

Aramco didn't immediately return requests for comment.