PetroChina to sell 50% of subsidiary
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China鈥檚 oil giant PetroChina will sell half of a subsidiary that operates pipelines across central Asia for US$2.4 billion, it has said, raising hopes of possible reforms among state-owned companies.
Its Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline has pipelines connecting China with countries including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
It is expected to have an 8,000-kilometer network with an annual capacity of 85 billion cubic meters by 2020.
The 50 percent stake will be sold to another state-owned firm, China Reform Holdings, PetroChina said in a statement to the Shanghai exchange.
While the transaction is between state-owned companies, and for only half the pipeline unit, spinning off non-core assets is seen as a positive sign for change in China鈥檚 lumbering state sector.
Vested interests are entrenched within it but the government has been pushing reforms to bolster the economy to avoid a hard landing.
PetroChina and its huge parent, China National Petroleum Corp, are seeking to meet government-set annual profit goals by selling assets, Bloomberg News reported, quoting people with knowledge of the situation.
PetroChina鈥檚 third-quarter net profit slumped 81.4 percent year on year 鈥 albeit still more than US$800 million 鈥 as China鈥檚 economic growth slowed to its worst for more than six years and on the back of tumbling global oil prices.
PetroChina shares fell 0.11 percent in Shanghai yesterday but gained 0.35 percent in Hong Kong.
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