Gazprom獲中國銀行20億歐元貸款
Gazprom has agreed to borrow 2bn from Bank of China in its largest ever bilateral loan as it braces for export gas prices to fall to a 10-year low.
俄羅斯天然氣工業公司(Gazprom)已就從中國銀行(Bank of China)借款20億歐元達成協議，這是該公司有史以來獲得的最大一筆雙邊貸款。目前，該公司正在爲應對天然氣出口價格降至10年低點做準備。
The Russian state-controlled gas group agreed the five-year loan — one of the largest ever from a Chinese lender to a Russian company — with Bank of China’s London branch at a meeting in Shanghai on Thursday, it said in a statement.
這家俄羅斯國有天然氣公司在一份聲明中表示，週四，該公司與中國銀行倫敦分行在上海舉行會議後就獲取這筆五年期貸款達成協議，這是中國貸款機構迄今向俄羅斯企業發放的最大幾筆貸款之一。
“For Gazprom this is the largest deal in terms of the amount of financing attracted directly from one financial institution and the first bilateral loan facility agreement with a Chinese bank,” the Russian company said.
該公司表示：“對俄羅斯天然氣工業公司來說，這是從某一金融機構獲得的最大一筆直接融資，也是與一家中國的銀行達成的第一筆雙邊貸款協議。”
The loan comes nearly two years after Gazprom signed a flagship deal with CNPC to export $400bn of gas to China over 30 years.
將近兩年前，俄羅斯天然氣工業公司與中國石油天然氣集團公司(CNPC)簽署了一項重要協議，要在未來30年向中國出口價值4000億美元的天然氣。
Gazprom executives and Russian president Vladimir Putin made much of the “pivot to Asia” symbolised by the deal, which was signed soon after the first western sanctions were imposed against Russia.
俄羅斯天然氣工業公司的高管們和俄總統弗拉基米爾•普京(Vladimir Putin)很重視這項協議對“轉向亞洲”的象徵意義——就在該協議簽署不久前，西方對俄羅斯實施了首輪制裁。
But the gas company has since softened its rhetoric: in a presentation to investors last month it stated that Europe was Gazprom’s “key export market”.
但在那之後，這家天然氣公司的措辭有所軟化：上月在面向投資者的報告會上，該公司表示歐洲是其“關鍵出口市場”。
When the deal with CNPC was signed, the Russian group said it hoped to receive a financing package — either in the form of prepayments for gas supplies or loans — worth $25bn to help it build a new pipeline, the Power of Siberia. But the deal never materialised, with people close to the negotiations saying that Beijing had pushed for interest rates that were higher than Gazprom was prepared to accept.
在與中國石油天然氣集團簽署協議時，這家俄羅斯公司曾表示希望得到價值250億美元的一攬子融資，形式可以是天然氣供應的預付款，也可以是貸款，以幫其建設一條名爲“西伯利亞力量”(Power of Siberia)的新管道。但雙方一直未就此達成協議，據瞭解談判情況的人士透露，北京方面要求的利率高於俄羅斯天然氣工業公司打算接受的水平。
