今年迄今加拿大油气并购交易额达到180亿美元

原标题：今年迄今加拿大油气并购交易额达到180亿美元

    中国石化新闻网讯 据油价网3月24日消息称，周二公布的数据显示，加拿大能源行业今年迄今为止的并购金额达到创纪录的180亿美元，而分析师预测，2021年将是加拿大油气行业并购的丰收年。

    路透社援引Dealogic的数据称，2021年初至3月18日，加拿大的能源交易总额为180亿美元，是逾25年来最高的能源交易总额。此外，路透援引Dealogic的数据显示，1月1日至3月18日，加拿大能源交易占全球并购交易的16.2%，为2002年以来最高比例。

    去年油价暴跌后，加拿大石油行业发生了多起并购交易，其中包括两家最大的公司——Cenovus能源公司和赫斯基能源公司之间的一桩轰动全球的全股票交易。去年，在油价暴跌的背景下，人们期待已久的加拿大油气行业整合成为推动并购的主要力量。

    加拿大自然资源部总裁Tim McKay 在2020年11月的财报电话会议上说： “明年将继续进行整合。”他补充说，“我们可能正处于整合时期。”

    根据GlobalData的数据，由于Cenovus能源公司与赫斯基能源公司的交易，2020年第四季度加拿大的所有并购交易价值100.1亿美元，比上一季度飙升468.3%，与前四个季度16.6亿美元的平均水平相比激增504.2％。

    分析师称，今年的主要因素可能是油价上涨，这使得融资市场对交易开放，因油价今年上涨约20%。

    朱佳妮 摘译自 油价网

    原文如下：

    Canada’s Oil & Gas Mergers Hit Record $18 Billion So Far This Year

    Canada’s energy industry saw a record US$18 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions year to date, data showed on Tuesday, while analysts predict 2021 will be a bumper year for M&A in the Canadian oil and gas industry.

    According to data from Dealogic, cited by Reuters, energy deals in Canada between the start of 2021 and March 18 totaled US$18 billion, the highest combined value of energy deals in more than 25 years. Moreover, Canadian energy deals accounted for 16.2 percent of the global M&As between January 1 and March 18, the highest share since 2002, Dealogic data quoted by Reuters showed.

    Canada’s oil patch saw last year a number of M&A deals in the wake of the oil price crash, including a blockbuster all-stock deal between two of the biggest companies, Cenovus Energy and Husky Energy. Last year, the driving force of the mergers and acquisitions was the long-awaited consolidation in Canada’s oil and gas industry in light of the collapse in oil prices.

    “There will continue to be some consolidation here over the next year,” Tim McKay, President at Canadian Natural Resources, said on the earnings call in November 2020, adding that “we probably are in a time of consolidation.”

    Thanks to the Cenovus Energy-Husky Energy deal, all M&A transactions in Canada in the fourth quarter of 2020 were worth US$10.01 billion, soaring by 468.3 percent from the previous quarter and surging by 504.2 percent compared to the last four-quarter average of US$1.66 billion, according to data from GlobalData.

    This year, the leading factor would be the higher oil prices which have made funding markets open to deals as oil prices rallied some 20 percent this year, analysts say.