沙特阿美在中国墨水炼油厂交易

熟悉计划的消息人士称，沙特阿美计划在本周的沙特阿拉伯王储访问期间在中国签署初步交易，以投资两种炼油和石化综合体。The Saudi delegation, including top executives from Aramco, arrived in Beijing on Thursday for a two-day visit, part of the crown prince’s Asia tour, during which the kingdom has pledged $20 billion of investment in Pakistan and sought additional investment in India’s refining industry. Mohammed bin Salman will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has made stepping up China’s presence in the Middle East a key foreign policy objective, despite its traditional low-key role there. China has given few details about the visit.

Saudi Aramco, the world’s top oil exporter, will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to build a refinery and petrochemical project in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning in a joint venture with China’s defense conglomerate Norinco, said three sources with knowledge of the matter. Aramco is also expected to formalize an earlier plan to take a minority stake in Zhejiang Petrochemical, controlled by private Chinese chemical group Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding Group, said two sources with knowledge of this particular deal. Zhejiang Petrochemical is building a refinery and petrochemical complex in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. The investments could help Saudi Arabia regain its place as the top oil exporter to China, which it has relinquished to Russia for the past three years. Saudi Aramco is poised to bolster its market share by signing supply agreements with non-state Chinese refiners.

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目前尚不清楚在访问期间与Norinco期望在谅解备忘录中获得哪些新细节，因为这两家公司在沙特统治者萨尔曼国王访问北京时首次宣布了2017年5月的联盟。根据较早的谅解备忘录，两家公司同意建造一家能够处理每天300,000桶原油的炼油厂，并以每年100万吨的乙烯为基础，这是石油化学剂的基础，估计成本超过100亿美元。一位高级Aramco高管去年6月表示，他希望NORINCO项目的前端工程将于2019年中完成，然后该公司将做出最终的投资决定。

Norinco公共事务官员没有立即发表评论。Aramco官员没有回复通过电子邮件发送的评论请求。由于物质的敏感性，所有来源都拒绝确定。

同时，审协议将使沙特阿美的控制权控制措施省政府在该项目中的9％股权。该协议是在Aramco于10月份签署的较早谅解备忘录之后进行的，该谅解备忘了省会项目，该项目计划作为炼油厂，以处理上海南部Zhoushan市的40万BPD原油和相关的石化设施。路透社无法立即到达Zhoushan海洋发展和投资有限公司，该公司在省政府中拥有9％的股份，以发表评论。

由于北京也与沙特地区的伊朗地区敌人有着密切的联系，中国与利雅得不得不仔细地与利雅得建立关系。周三，即王储王子到达的前一天，习近平告诉议长伊朗议会，中国与伊朗建立紧密联系的愿望将保持不变，无论国际局势如何。

（Chen Aizhu，Rania El Gamal和Meng Meng和Ben Blanchard的报道； Christian Schmollinger的编辑）