据2月1日CNBC报道，2020年,油价受到疫情冲击。《华尔街日报》报道称，雪佛龙(Chevron)和埃克森美孚(Exxon)讨论了两家公司合并的可能性。
据《华尔街日报》报道，谈判尚未进行，只是初步的设想。两家公司对此均拒绝置评。不过，路透社后来报道了此次会谈。
雪佛龙和埃克森的合并将是历史上规模最大的并购案之一，而且很可能面临美国司法部的反垄断审查。这两家公司的前身都是约翰洛克菲勒（John D. Rockefeller）的标准石油公司，于1911年被最高法院分拆。
雪佛龙的市值为1640亿美元，埃克森美孚的市值为1890亿美元，这意味着合并后的公司价值将超过3500亿美元。合并后的公司将成为世界第二大石油和天然气公司，仅次于沙特阿拉伯国家石油公司。
油价自2020年3月下跌以来已经收复了大部分失地，但由于疫苗推出速度不及预期，以及人们对新型冠状病毒变种的担忧，油价仍有些低迷。
冯于荣 摘译自CNBC
原文如下：
Chevron and Exxon discussed merger last year after Covid pandemic devastated oil prices, reports say
The CEOs of Chevron and ExxonMobil last year discussed the possibility of merging the two companies, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing unnamed people familiar with the talks.
The newspaper reported that Chevron CEO Michael Wirth and Exxon CEO Darren Woods spoke about the prospect after the Covid-19 pandemic began to negatively impact oil prices.
The talks are not ongoing and were described as preliminary, according to the Journal. Representatives from the two companies declined to comment. The talks were later reported by Reuters.
A merger between Chevron and Exxon would be among the largest in history, and would likely face antitrust scrutiny from President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. Both companies descend from John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, which was broken up by the Supreme Court in 1911.
Chevron’s market cap is $164 billion, and Exxon’s is $189 billion, meaning that the combined company would be worth north of $350 billion. The combined firm would be the second largest oil and gas company in the world, after Saudi Aramco.
Oil prices have recovered much of their losses since cratering in March, though they have remained somewhat depressed amid a slower-than-expected vaccine roll out and worries of new coronavirus variants.
