据油价网7月4日报道，巴国油Petrobras首席财务官Sergio Caetano Leite在接受彭博社采访时表示，在出售上下游企业股权多年后，正在寻找潜在的资产收购机会。

由于负债减少、现金流增强和融资能力提高，Petrobras可能已经做好了收购的准备，这位高管表示。

Leite告诉彭博社：“Petrobras进行了一项资产剥离计划。”

“公司现在已经改变了立场。”

Petrobras在今年5月报告称，到2023年第一季度末，其总债务为533亿美元，是自2010年以来的最低水平。

Leite告诉彭博社，进一步的资产收购投资将不会给Petrobras增加更多债务。

该公司在第一季度取得了可观业绩，可再生利息、税项、折旧和摊销前收益（EBITDA）为143亿美元，是Petrobras历史上第四高的水平。

2023年2月，巴西近海盐盆地的产量达到了每天213万桶油当量的新高，并在季度内录得205万桶油当量。在2023年第一季度，盐盆地油田占到了Petrobras总产量的77%，而2022年第四季度为75%。

该公司计划到2027年在盐盆地启动十多个生产平台，首席执行官Jean Paul Prates在今年5月表示。

该首席执行官说：“我们还在评估与其他公司组建工作组，寻求在巴西和海外的商业机会。”

今年早些时候，Prates表示，尽管Petrobras将随着时间的推移增加对清洁能源的投资，但石油生产仍将是巴西国家石油巨头的首要任务。

胡耀东 译自 油价网

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.