據路透社8月5日耶路撒冷報道，以色列德萊克鉆井公司周三表示，該公司將以6.28%的平均利息發行22.5億美元的國際債券，以幫助其為以色列地中海沿岸的Leviathan天然氣項目的開發融資。

在路演之后，Delek表示，此次債券發行--分為四個系列，預計將于2023年、2025年、2027年和2030年到期，需求量達了70億美元，其中超過90%的募集金額來自國際投資者。

該公司表示，此次發行是自COVID-19爆發以來全球市場上基礎設施領域規模最大的一次，也是2020年規模最大的一次。

未來幾天將開始在國際市場和以色列TACT-Institutional上進行債券交易。

德萊克集團（Delek Group）旗下的德萊克鉆井公司（Delek Drilling）表示，發行后將回購不超過5,000萬美元的現有債券，包括用于為規模較小的塔瑪天然氣項目融資的債券。

以色列價值36億美元的Leviathan油田由Delek、德克薩斯州的Noble Energy和Ratio Oil共同擁有，于2019年底開始投產，目前已經向以色列，埃及和約旦供應天然氣。

上個月，雪佛龍公司表示將以50億美元的股票收購Noble。

沈韓曄摘譯自 路透社

原文如下：

Delek Drilling sells $2.25 bln of bonds to finance Leviathan gas field

Israel's Delek Drilling said on Wednesday it will pay an average interest of 6.28 percent in a $2.25 billion international bond offering to help it finance development of the Leviathan natural gas project off Israel's Mediterranean coast.

Following a road show, Delek said demand in the bond issue -- divided into four series expected to mature in 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2030 -- reached $7 billion, with over 90 per cent of the amount raised coming from international investors.

The offering, it said, was the largest in the infrastructures sector in the global market since the outbreak of COVID-19, and one of the largest in 2020.

Trade in the bonds on international markets and on the Israeli TACT-Institutional will begin over the next few days.

Delek Drilling, controlled by conglomerate Delek Group , has said that after the offering it would buy back up to $50 million of its existing bonds, including those used to finance the smaller Tamar gas project.

Israel's $3.6 billion Leviathan field - co-owned by Delek, Texas-based Noble Energy and Ratio Oil - started production in late 2019 and is already supplying gas to Israel, Egypt and Jordan.

Last month, Chevron Corp said it would buy Noble for $5 billion in stock.