Saudiarabien: ”Bin Salman riktar in sig på Sabic-affär”
Sedan planerna på att börslista det statliga oljebolaget Saudi Aramco i en gigantisk listning lagts på hyllan riktar Saudiarabien nu i stället in sig på affären mellan Aramco och det statliga kemibolaget Sabic, uppger källor för Reuters.
Med affären – där Aramco enligt uppgifter ska köpa en kontrollpost i Sabic – lösgörs kapital som ska användas till i kronprins Muhammed bin Salmans plan för att ställa om landet från dess oljeberoende.
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Saudi Aramco
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Saudi Aramco (Arabic: أرامكو السعودية ʾArāmkō s-Saʿūdiyyah), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, most popularly known just as Aramco (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company), is a Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran.It is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue and, according to accounts seen by Bloomberg News, the most profitable company in the world. Saudi Aramco has both the world's second-largest proven crude oil reserves, at more than 270 billion barrels (4.3×1010 m3), and second-largest daily oil production.Saudi Aramco's financial data were leaked in April 2018 and according to Bloomberg's analysts the company could be valued at $1.2 trillion, significantly lower than the official figure of $2 trillion backed by Saudi officials.
Headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Aramco operates the world's largest single hydrocarbon network, the Master Gas System. Its 2013 crude oil production total was 3.4 billion barrels (540,000,000 m3), and it manages over one hundred oil and gas fields in Saudi Arabia, including 288.4 trillion standard cubic feet (scf) of natural gas reserves. Saudi Aramco operates the Ghawar Field, the world's largest onshore oil field, and the Safaniya Field, the world's largest offshore oil field.
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