国家石油公司正在推进公开上市计划，效仿亿万富翁阿利科·丹格特成功发布其炼油公司股份的先例。
National Petroleum Co. is making progress on plans for a public listing, following the successful precedent set by billionaire Aliko Dangote’s offering of shares in his refining company.
“我们已经完成了基准评估，”国家石油公司首席执行官巴约·巴希尔·奥朱拉里周二在接受采访时表示。该公司目前正在弥补顾问指出的差距，这些差距需要对部分报告结构和治理框架进行调整，他说。
“We’ve done the baseline assessment,” Bayo Bashir Ojulari, chief executive officer of NNPC said in an interview on Tuesday. The firm is currently closing gaps identified by its advisers, which require changes in some reporting structures and governance frameworks, he said.
国家石油公司正在实施这些纠正措施，“以便尽快具备IPO条件”，奥朱拉里说。
NNPC is implementing these remedial actions “to be IPO ready as as soon as possible,” Ojulari said.
在主导尼日利亚国内石油行业半个世纪之后，自非洲首富丹格特在拉各斯建成日产65万桶的炼油厂以来，国家石油公司面临着新的竞争压力。该现代化设施使产能提升至每日70万桶，目前满负荷运行并出口燃料，而国营的国家石油公司则有四家陷入停滞的炼油厂。
After dominating Nigeria’s domestic oil industry for half a century, NNPC has come under new competitive pressure since Dangote, Africa’s richest person, built his 650,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Lagos. The modern facility, which raised capacity to 700,000 barrels-per-day, has been operating at full capacity and exporting fuel, unlike state-run NNPC’s four moribund refineries.
丹格特目前正推动其炼油业务上市，目标是筹集16亿美元，以扩大现有工厂规模一倍并在肯尼亚建设一个复制厂。此次IPO引发了前所未有的本地关注，尼日利亚证券交易所于9月中旬开放交易后，交易应用因交易火爆而出现崩溃。
Dangote is in the process of taking his refining business public, seeking to raise $1.6 billion to double the size of the existing plant and build a replica in Kenya. The IPO has ignited unprecedented local interest, crashing trading apps after the sale on the Nigerian Stock Exchange opened in mid-September.
尼日利亚政府官员最近一次是在10月7日，副总统卡希姆·谢蒂马呼吁国家石油公司也进行自身的IPO。然而，奥朱拉里表示，该公司在石油行业所有环节——从油田到炼油和零售——拥有更广泛的业务版图，因此难以与单一炼油厂进行比较。
Nigerian government officials, most recently Vice President Kashim Shettima on Oct. 7, called for NNPC to do its own IPO. However, the company’s larger footprint across all verticals of the oil sector, from fields to refining and retail, makes it difficult to compare to a single oil refinery, Ojulari said.
他暗示，一旦其IPO获批，公司将需要决定是否上市具体业务单元，这些单元涵盖上游作业、管道、炼油、原油交易和零售。
He hinted that once its IPO was approved, the firm will have to decide whether to list specific business units that span upstream operations, pipelines, refining, crude trading and retail.
“有一些事情甚至无法进行IPO，”奥朱拉里说。“你必须决定是对它们进行投资组合合理化、整合，还是你知道的，在该来临的时候退出这些项目。”NNPC管理尼日利亚在非洲最大产油国与国内外石油和天然气生产公司的合资企业中的股份。彭博社此前曾报道，该公司正考虑出售其在这些合资企业中的最高30%股份，奥朱拉里预计将在明年早些时候作出决定。
“There are some things that cannot even be IPOed,” Ojulari said. “You have to decide whether you do a portfolio rationalization on them, consolidate them, or, you know, exit those items when that time comes.”NNPC manages Nigeria’s stakes in joint ventures with domestic and foreign oil and gas producing firms in Africa’s top producer. Bloomberg had previously reported that the company is looking at selling up to 30% of its stakes in the ventures, and Ojulari expects a decision early next year.
在完成投资组合审查后，NNPC正在评估来自现有合作伙伴和外国投资者（包括银行）的战略和技术能力提案。该公司旨在实现总统设定的四年内日产300万桶石油的目标。根据尼日利亚监管机构的数据，其9月份的液体石油产量为每日170万桶。
Following a completed portfolio review, NNPC is evaluating proposals for strategic and technical competence from both existing partners and foreign investors, including banks. The company is seeking to meet a presidential production target of 3 million barrels a day in four years. Its liquids production in September was 1.7 million barrels a day, according to Nigeria’s regulator.
“最重要的是要快速实现多元化，以加速我们在上游领域的目标，”他说。“我们也在天然气领域、中游领域开展了许多其他合作。”
“The most important thing is to diversify quickly to accelerate our goals” in the upstream, he said. “We are doing a lot of other collaborations also in the gas space, the midstream.”