知情人士透露，一项价值数十亿美元的拟议交易的大多数所有权将归于一组中东投资者，其中包括一些与美国谈判代表有商业往来的投资者。
A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to U.S. negotiators.
特朗普政府辩称，其提议的这笔价值数十亿美元的俄罗斯石油交易将推进美国的外交政策利益并降低能源价格。
The Trump administration argues that its proposed multibillion-dollar Russian oil deal would advance American foreign policy interests and lower energy prices.
但知情人士称，这笔交易的大部分所有权将归于一群中东投资者，其中包括一些与参与谈判的关键美国官员有商业往来的投资者。
But most of the ownership in the deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to key U.S. officials involved in the negotiations, according to people familiar with the talks.
据《纽约时报》上周报道，这笔交易涉及目前由受制裁的俄罗斯能源巨头卢克石油公司（Lukoil）拥有的全球油田、炼油厂和加油站资产组合，已与美国就结束乌克兰战争与俄罗斯进行的谈判交织在一起。
The deal, for a worldwide portfolio of oil fields, refineries and gas stations now owned by the sanctioned Russian energy giant Lukoil, has become intertwined with the U.S. talks with Russia over ending the war in Ukraine, The New York Times reported last week.
无需预付现金，美国政府将通过美国国际开发金融公司（U.S. International Development Finance Corporation）获得该交易约15%的股份。
The United States government, through the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, would get a stake of about 15 percent in the deal, without investing any cash up front, the people said.
投资集团负责人、美国亿万富翁托德·伯利（Todd Boehly）在过去两年中向支持特朗普的事业捐赠了200万美元，他将获得较小的少数股权。
The leader of the investor group, Todd Boehly, an American billionaire who has donated $2 million to pro-Trump causes in the last two years, would get a smaller minority stake.