据彭博社12月6日报道，阿曼成立了一家新的国有能源公司，试图利用其最大的石油区块来进行融资。根据周日的一份政府公报消息，这家名为Energy Development Oman的公司将持有阿曼石油开发有限责任公司（Petroleum Development Oman LLC）的股权，以及6号区块的权益。该公司将从事油气勘探和生产业务，并可以“以任何方式”获得贷款，阿曼石油开发有限责任公司也将能够在海外投资并经营可再生能源产品。
据彭博社上月报道，阿曼正努力为其飙升的预算赤字融资，计划将其在阿曼石油开发公司6号区块的60%股份转让给一家新公司，该公司将在2021年上半年发行约30亿美元债券。据知情人士透露，摩根大通(JPMorgan Chase & Co.)正在为此提供咨询服务。
6号区块是中东最大的原油矿藏之一，日产量为65万桶。荷兰皇家壳牌公司(Royal Dutch Shell Plc)持有该区块34%的股份，道达尔SE持有4%，Partex Oil & Gas持有2%。
阿曼的提议可能为中东其他希望在不扩大资产和负债的情况下筹集资金的国家树立一个先例。伊拉克库尔德地区在所谓的“预付款融资”协议下，提前出售了一些原油。阿联酋今年通过出售管道和房产的租赁权，筹集了数十亿美元。但据了解，还没有哪个中东国家将特定的石油区块有效地用作融资抵押品。
阿曼融资架构可能与美国页岩油气生产商常见的基于储备的贷款机制类似。
王佳晶 摘译自 彭博社
原文如下：
Oman Starts New Energy Company as It Seeks to Leverage Oil Block
Oman established a new government-owned energy company as it seeks to use its largest oil block to raise debt.
The firm, to be called Energy Development Oman, will own a shareholding in Petroleum Development Oman LLC as well as an interest in Block 6, according to a government gazette Energy Development Oman will also be able to invest abroad and deal in renewable-energy products.
Bloomberg reported last month that Oman, which is struggling to finance a soaring budget deficit, planned to transfer its 60% stake in Block 6 from Petroleum Development Oman to a new company, which would try to issue around $3 billion of bonds in the first half of 2021. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is advising the government Block 6 is Oman’s proposal could set a precedent for other governments in the Middle East that want to raise cash without stretching their balance sheets. Iraq’s Kurdish region sells some crude before it’s pumped under so-called pre-payment finance deals, and the United Arab Emirates has raised billions of dollars this year by selling rights to lease pipelines and properties. But no Middle Eastern government is known to have used specific oil blocks effectively as collateral for funding.
The structure for Oman would probably be similar to the reserves-based lending facilities that are common among U.S. shale producers.