据普氏能源资讯8月12日利雅得报道，全球最大的原油生产商沙特阿拉伯国家石油公司(沙特阿美)周一在其有史以来首次面向分析师、银行家和媒体的财报电话会议上强调了自己的财务实力和对油价走跌的韧性。

沙特阿美首席财务官达巴格在财报电话会议上表示，沙特阿美已准备好进行首次公开募股（IPO），但具体时间将由本国政府决定。

达巴格表示：“沙特阿美已经为IPO做好了准备。IPO的时机本身，这是一个股东的问题。他们将根据自己对最优条件的看法来宣布。”他没有提供有关这家石油巨头将如何作为一家上市公司运营的进一步信息。

沙特阿美宣布今年上半年该公司净利润为469亿美元，低于去年同期的532亿美元。尽管油价同比下滑，但沙特阿美仍是迄今为止全球利润最高的石油公司，并在油价下跌之际强调了自己的持久性。布伦特原油期货价格自4月份以来已下跌了20%，至每桶不到60美元。

今年上半年平均日产1000万桶原油和炼油厂平均日加工460万原油的沙特阿美时下正在努力在2021年前进行IPO，IPO的收益可以改变沙特阿拉伯王国的经济。

李峻 编译自 Platts

原文如下：

Saudi Aramco awaits government's call for IPO, reports earnings for first time

Saudi Aramco, the world's largest crude producer, highlighted its financial muscle and resilience to slumping oil prices on Monday.

State-owned Aramco stands ready to execute an initial public offering, but any decision on timing will be left to the country's government, Chief Financial Officer Khalid al-Dabbagh said on the earnings call, repeating a common refrain from company officials.

"The company is ready for the IPO. The timing of the IPO itself, this is a shareholder issue. They will announce it depending on their perception of the optimal conditions," Dabbagh said, providing no further information on how the oil giant would operate as a publicly traded company.

Saudi Arabia's national oil company announced net income of $46.9 billion for the first six months of 2019, down from $53.2 billion in the same period a year earlier. Even with the year-on-year slide, Aramco remains the world's most profitable company by far and talked up its durability in the face of lower oil prices, with Brent futures having fallen 20% since April to less than $60/b.

Aramco, which averaged crude production of 10 million b/d and refining throughput of 4.6 million b/d in the first half of the year, is working toward an IPO by 2021, whose proceeds could transform the kingdom's economy.ew