Repsol valuta la dismissione di alcuni asset, fra i quali la controllata argentina YPF.
Per il 75% di YPF la cinese CNPC, la prima società del paese per giro di affari, avrebbe offerto fra i 13,2 ed i 14,5 mld $. Apparentemente, secondo quanto riferito da Repsol, sarebbero interessate a YPF altre società cinesi, russe ed indiane.
CNPC to bid up to $14.5 bn for Repsol YPF stake -report
Mon Jul 6, 2009 11:03pm EDT
HONG KONG, July 7 (Reuters) - China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the country's largest oil company, has offered to pay between $13.2 billion and $14.5 billion for a 75 percent stake in Spanish oil major Repsol's (
REP.MC) Argentine unit YPF, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday, citing sources.
Executives from CNPC, the parent firm of top Asian oil and gas producer PetroChina (
0857.HK) (
PTR.N) (
601857.SS), and Repsol have begun talks over the offer and the initial reaction from Repsol's board members has been receptive, the newspaper said.
But Liu Weijiang, a CNPC official in charge of responding to foreign media inquiries, told Reuters that he did not have any information on the deal.
The bid is lower than the $17 billion offer that CNPC was prepared to make, reported by the paper last week.
Repsol had said it received several offers for a stake in YPF. China's top offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC (
0883.HK) (
CEO.N), India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (
ONGC.BO) and Russian companies are also eyeing stakes in the firm. (Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee and Jim Bai in BEIJING, Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)