據油價網7月4日報道，巴國油Petrobras首席財務官Sergio Caetano Leite在接受彭博社采訪時表示，在出售上下游企業股權多年后，正在尋找潛在的資產收購機會。

由于負債減少、現金流增強和融資能力提高，Petrobras可能已經做好了收購的準備，這位高管表示。

Leite告訴彭博社：“Petrobras進行了一項資產剝離計劃。”

“公司現在已經改變了立場。”

Petrobras在今年5月報告稱，到2023年第一季度末，其總債務為533億美元，是自2010年以來的最低水平。

Leite告訴彭博社，進一步的資產收購投資將不會給Petrobras增加更多債務。

該公司在第一季度取得了可觀業績，可再生利息、稅項、折舊和攤銷前收益（EBITDA）為143億美元，是Petrobras歷史上第四高的水平。

2023年2月，巴西近海鹽盆地的產量達到了每天213萬桶油當量的新高，并在季度內錄得205萬桶油當量。在2023年第一季度，鹽盆地油田占到了Petrobras總產量的77%，而2022年第四季度為75%。

該公司計劃到2027年在鹽盆地啟動十多個生產平臺，首席執行官Jean Paul Prates在今年5月表示。

該首席執行官說：“我們還在評估與其他公司組建工作組，尋求在巴西和海外的商業機會。”

今年早些時候，Prates表示，盡管Petrobras將隨著時間的推移增加對清潔能源的投資，但石油生產仍將是巴西國家石油巨頭的首要任務。

胡耀東 譯自 油價網

原文如下：

Brazil’s Petrobras Looks To Buy Oil Assets After A Decade Of Divestments

Brazil’s state-owned oil and gas firm Petrobras is on the lookout for potential asset acquisitions after spending years selling off stakes in upstream and downstream businesses, chief financial officer Sergio Caetano Leite told Bloomberg in an interview published on Tuesday.

Thanks to lowered debt and stronger cash flow generation and financing, Petrobras could be ready for an acquisition, the executive said. 

“Petrobras had a divestment program,” Leite told Bloomberg.

“The company has now changed sides of the table.”

Petrobras reported in May that its gross debt was $53.3 billion at the end of the first quarter of 2023, the lowest level since 2010.

Any additional investments in asset acquisitions will not put Petrobras into more debt, Leite told Bloomberg.

The company booked solid results for the first quarter, with recurring earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) at $14.3 billion, the fourth highest in Petrobras' history.

Production from the pre-salt area offshore Brazil hit a new monthly record of 2.13 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed) in February 2023 and a quarterly record of 2.05 million boed. In the first quarter of 2023, the pre-salt fields accounted for 77% of Petrobras’s total production, compared to 75% in the fourth quarter of 2022.

The company plans to start up more than a dozen production platforms in the pre-salt area by 2027, CEO Jean Paul Prates said in May.

“We are also evaluating the creation of taskforces with other companies to seek business opportunities in Brazil and abroad,” the chief executive said.

Earlier this year, Prates said that even as Petrobras boosts investment in clean energy over time, oil production would remain the top priority for the Brazilian state oil giant.