奥地利OMV向Verbund出售天然气管道业务

据天然气加工&液化天然气2020年9月23日维也纳报道，奥地利油气集团（OMV） 23日宣布，该公司将把其旗下的天然气管道子公司的多数股权出售给其竞争对手奥地利最大能源公司Verbund电力公司，这笔交易将帮助OMV减少债务，并为其收购一家领先的塑料制造商提供资金。

3月初，OMV曾表示将剥离价值23亿美元的资产，为收购全球领先聚合物生产商之一的北欧化工（Borealis）的数十亿美元交易提供资金。

对OMV来说，这笔交易还将使OMV的债务减少逾5.7亿欧元(6.616亿美元)。

两家公司说，Verbund将以2.71亿欧元现金收购51%的股份，并承担截至交易之日对OMV的未偿债务。

到2019年底，债务总额为1.65亿欧元。

两家公司进行了数月的排他性谈判，直到Verbund在6月中旬提交了一份有约束力的报价。

买家还表示，由于交易要到2021年才能完成，因此这笔交易预计将不会对其2020年全年指导产生任何影响。

李峻 编译自 Gas Processing & LNG

原文如下：

Austrian utility OMV sells gas pipeline unit to Verbund

Austrian utility OMV has announced it will sell a majority stake in its gas pipeline subsidiary to rival Verbund, a deal that will help OMV reduce debt and finance its acquisition of a leading plastics maker.

In early March, OMV had said it would make divestitures worth $2.3 billion to finance a multi-billion dollar deal to buy one of the world's leading polymer producers, Borealis.

For OMV, this transaction will also lead to a debt reduction of more than 570 million euros ($666.16 million), it said.

Verbund will buy a 51% stake for 271 million euros in cash and assume its outstanding liabilities to OMV as of the date of transaction, the companies said.

At the end of 2019, the debt amounted to 165 million euros.

The two companies had held exclusive negotiations for months until Verbund submitted a binding offer in mid-June.

The buyer added it does not expect the transaction to have any effects on its full-year 2020 guidance as the closing will not take place until 2021.