???? 據世界石油網站2月23日報道 知情人士稱，阿波羅全球管理公司和全球基礎設施合作伙伴是競購沙特阿美石油管道約100億美元股份的競購者之一。
????知情人士表示，加拿大布魯克菲爾德資產管理公司、黑石資本和阿布扎比和沙特阿拉伯的養老基金分別提交了初步投標。
????知情人士稱，阿美正在研究這些提議，然后再決定邀請哪些公司提出具有約束力的報價。競購者可能會在隨后的過程中組成團隊。沙特阿拉伯一些知名家族企業也在考慮與其他投資者合作。
????這家全球最大的石油公司正考慮進行資產處置，以維持其750億美元的年度股息支付，幾乎所有股息都歸沙特政府所有。在去年冠狀病毒大流行導致原油價格暴跌后，這一全球最大的上市公司的支出變得難以維持。
????盡管油價自去年11月以來一直上漲，但這在很大程度上是因為歐佩克+卡特爾成員國（包括沙特阿拉伯）限制了產量。
????據知情人士上月透露，阿美石油公司正準備向輸油管道投資者提供約75億美元的貸款。彭博新聞社去年12月報道，該公司去年聘請了總部位于紐約的投資銀行Moelis&Co來制定出售部分子公司股權的策略。
????這筆交易可能是今年規模最大的基礎設施交易之一，擁有創紀錄規模的資本金，基礎設施基金正尋求投資于回報可預期的資產。包括GIP和布魯克菲爾德在內的六家投資者去年購買了阿布扎比國家石油公司天然氣管道101億美元的股份。
????王磊 摘譯自 世界石油
????原文如下：
????Saudi Aramco lands multiple bids for $10 billion pipeline stake
????Apollo Global Management Inc. and Global Infrastructure Partners are among suitors that bid for a roughly $10 billion stake in Saudi Aramco’s oil pipelines, people familiar with the matter said.
????Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Inc., BlackRock Inc.,?have also made non-binding offers, the people said, asking not to be identified as the matter is private. Pension funds in Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia have separately submitted initial bids, the people said.
????Aramco is studying the proposals before deciding which companies will be invited to make binding offers, the people said. Bidders may team up later in the process, the people said. Some prominent family-owned groups in Saudi Arabia are also considering partnering with other investors, according to the people.
????The world’s largest oil company is mulling asset disposals as a way of maintaining its $75 billion of annual dividend payments, almost all of which go to the Saudi government. That payout -- the biggest of any listed company in the world -- became harder to sustain after the coronavirus pandemic caused crude prices to plunge last year.
????While prices have risen since November, that’s in large part because members of the OPEC+ cartel, including Saudi Arabia, have restricted production.
????Dhahran-based Aramco is lining up a loan of about $7.5 billion that will be offered to investors in the oil pipelines, people familiar with the matter said last month. The company hired New York-based investment bank Moelis & Co. last year to devise a strategy for selling stakes in some subsidiaries, Bloomberg News reported in December.
????The sale could be one of the largest infrastructure deals this year. Flush with record amounts of capital, infrastructure funds are seeking to invest in assets with predictable returns. A group of six investors including GIP and Brookfield bought a $10.1 billion stake in the natural-gas pipelines of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. last year.
