據路透社5月25日倫敦報道，5位銀行業消息人士透露，日本最大的石油化工公司JX Nippon希望出售其英國北海油氣資產，包括該盆地一些最大油田的股權，交易價格可能高達15億美元。

　　這筆北海地區的最新交易，標志著石油巨頭向私營公司移交資產，私營公司表示，相較于一心謀劃能源轉型的石油巨頭，它們能夠更好開發剩余儲量。

　　消息人士稱，JX Nippon已聘請美國銀行與柯克·洛夫格羅夫投資銀行作為資產組合銷售顧問，資產組合包括JX Nippon分別與BP、道達爾、挪威國家石油公司合作的安德魯油田、卡爾津油田、馬里納油田項目。

　　道達爾稱，擁有3億桶儲量的卡爾津油田能夠單獨滿足5%的英國天然氣需求。

　　JX Nippon網站消息顯示，在馬里納油田和卡爾津油田2019年投產前，其資產組合內的油田2018年屬于JX Nippon的凈日產量為6500桶油當量。

　　JX Nippon公司2002年進入北海盆地收購油氣田，并在隨后幾年內獲得了勘探許可證。

　　JX Nippon未立即發表評論，而美國銀行與柯克·洛夫格羅夫投資銀行均拒絕發表評論。

　　詹樂乾 摘譯自路透社

　　原文如下：

　　JX Nippon seeks $1.5 billion for UK North Sea oil, gas fields

　　Japan's JX Nippon wants to sell its British North Sea oil and gas assets including stakes in some of the basin's biggest fields in a deal that could fetch up to $1.5 billion, five banking sources said.

　　The sale is the latest deal in the North Sea marking the handover of assets from oil majors to private companies, which say they can better exploit remaining reserves than huge companies focusing on the energy transition.

　　JX Nippon has hired Bank of America and Kirk Lovegrove as advisers for the sale of the portfolio, which includes stakes in the Andrew, Culzean and Mariner projects where JX Nippon partners with BP, Total and Equinor respectively, the sources said.

　　Culzean, with its 300 million barrels of reserves, can cover 5% of Britain's gas needs alone, according to Total.

　　The fields produced a net 6,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day for JX Nippon in 2018, before the start of Mariner and Culzean in 2019, according to its website.

　　JX Nippon entered the basin in 2002 and bought more fields, as well as being awarded exploration licences, in the years after.

　　JX Nippon had no immediate comment, while Bank of America and Kirk Lovegrove declined to comment.