据世界石油网站3月10日报道，据知情人士透露，埃克森美孚公司正在考虑出售北达科他州巴肯页岩的资产，此前相关方已与该公司接洽。
消息人士称，这家石油巨头可以从巴肯资产中获得大约50亿美元。其中一位知情人士表示，埃克森美孚正在对银行家进行最后一轮洽谈，以帮助启动销售流程。
知情人士称，埃克森美孚尚未就出售事宜做出最终决定，其计划仍有可能改变。
位于得克萨斯州欧文市的埃克森美孚公司的一名代表拒绝置评。
埃克森美孚正在大力削减成本，以期在油价上涨的情况下提高股东回报。该公司还专注于改善其油品的质量，并根据其第四季度业绩，在2021年期间从剥离资产中产生了30亿美元的现金收益。
随着原油价格飙升至2008年以来的最高水平，巴肯资产的并购活动开始升温。绿洲石油公司和惠廷石油公司上周宣布了他们“平等合并”，创建了一家专注于巴肯的新石油生产商，企业价值约60亿美元。
与面积大得多的二叠纪盆地（石油产量最近超过了疫情前的高点）相比，更成熟的巴肯油田的产量仍然很低。 根据雷斯塔能源的数据，截至2月，页岩公司每日从巴肯生产116万桶石油，而在与疫情相关的衰退之前，2019年11月的产量为每日153万桶。
王磊 摘译自 世界石油
原文如下：
Exxon weighs Bakken asset sale after getting interest
Exxon Mobil Corp. is considering a sale of assets in North Dakota’s Bakken shale after being approached by interested parties, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The oil giant could get about $5 billion for the Bakken assets, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak. Exxon is in the final round of interviewing bankers to help launch a sale process, one of the people said.
Exxon hasn’t made a final decision on pursuing a sale and its plans could still change, the people said.
A representative at Exxon, based in Irving, Texas, declined to comment.
Exxon is aggressively cutting costs in a bid to boost shareholder returns amid higher oil prices. The company also has been focused on improving the quality of its barrels and generated $3 billion of cash proceeds from divesting assets during 2021, according to its fourth-quarter results.
Bakken mergers and acquisitions activity is starting to heat up as crude prices have surged to the highest since 2008. Oasis Petroleum Inc. and Whiting Petroleum Corp. on Monday announced what they called a “merger of equals,” creating a new Bakken-focused oil producer with an enterprise value of about $6 billion.
In contrast to the much larger Permian Basin, where oil production recently surpassed its pre-pandemic high, output remains muted in the more mature Bakken oil field. Shale companies produced 1.16 million oil barrels per day from the Bakken through February, compared with 1.53 million barrels per day in November 2019 before the pandemic-related downturn, according to Rystad data.
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