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Beijing Gas Blue Sky entered into Cooperation Agreements with China Sam and Sinoenergy Corp; To further tamp the Group’s whole LNG industry chain advantages

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HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach -2 September 2019 - Beijing Gas Blue Sky Holdings Limited ("the Company" or "Beijing Gas Blue Sky", together with its subsidiaries, the "Group", HKSE stock code: 6828) is pleased to announce that, the Company entered into cooperation framework agreements (the "Cooperation Agreements") with China Sam Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. ("China Sam"), a national high-tech enterprise, and Changchun Sinoenergy Corporation ("Sinoenergy Corp"), a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

 

DETAILS OF THE COOPERATION AGREEMENTS

 

Cooperation with China Sam

 

The Company entered into a cooperation agreement with China Sam to establish a comprehensive strategic cooperation in terms of, among other things, (i) establishment of a close business relationship; (ii) exploration of the opportunities on the Belt and Road Initiative; (iii) establishment of fund for the merger and acquisition of companies in natural gas industry; (iv) utilisation of the Chaozhou and Jiangyin liquefied natural gas ("LNG") receiving terminals invested by Sinoenergy Corp to secure low cost and stable supply of LNG; and (v) collaboration on oil and gas exploration, etc.

 

Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Beijing, China Sam is a national high-tech enterprise. The businesses of China Sam and its subsidiaries cover energy, chemical, investment, international trade, film and security etc. Shenyu Chemical Oil & Gas Co., Ltd., an indirectly-owned subsidiary of China Sam, became the actual controller of Sinoenergy Corp in July 2019.

 

Cooperation with Sinoenergy Corp

 

The Company also entered into a cooperation agreement with Sinoenergy Corp to establish a comprehensive strategic cooperation in terms of, among otherthings, (i) collaboration on energy project; (ii) establishment of a close business relationship in relation to logistic and trading of energy resource and LNG supply; and (iii) collaboration on oil and gas exploration, etc.

 

Sinoenergy Corp is a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (Stock code: 600856) and is principally engaged in the production and sales of oil and natural gas, development, manufacture and sales of natural gas storage and transportation equipment, mergers and acquisitions, investment and operation of overseas oil and gas assets, and import distribution of overseas natural gas and crude oil related products.

 

Sinoenergy Corp has two LNG receiving terminals that are located in Yangtze River Delta economic belt and Pearl River Delta economic belt respectively. The two receiving terminals are scheduled to put into operation at the end of 2020 and it is expected that their processing capacities each will increase to 2 million tons per year in 2025. In addition, Sinoenergy Corp owns several oil and gas fields in North America with a total of billions of barrels of geological reserves. In terms of natural gas production and sales, Sinoenergy Corp has about 20 gas stations in Hubei and Jiangsu with an annual sales volume of over 100 million cubic meters, and has about 40 LNG industry direct supply projects in Zhejiang and Jiangsu with an annual sales volume of over 600 million cubic meters. For the LNG plant in Wuhan, it is expected to have a daily output volume of approximately 500,000 cubic meters after putting into operation.

 

BENEFITS OF ENTERING INTO THE COOPERATION AGREEMENTS

 

In the upstream gas source procurement

 

The Company successfully participated in the import and distribution of international LNG in 2018. By cooperating with CNOOC Limited ("CNOOC"), the Company imported a shipment of LNG of approximately 60,000 tons via CNOOC's receiving terminals. Leveraging on the Company's advantage of established whole LNG industry chain, the project gained good profit and was well received in the industry. Just seeing the Company's experience in international gas source procurement and domestic trade distribution, China Sam and Sinoenergy Corp hope to maximize the development value of the LNG resources they have already owned. Through this cooperation, the Company will rely on a total of annual 4 million tons LNG loading and unloading capacities (under full capacity) of Sinoenergy Corp's Jiangyin receiving terminal and Chaozhou receiving terminal in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta economic belts to take advantage of the international procurement resources and experience and gain greater bargaining power in international gas sources, so as to improve the pricing power and industrial influence in international procurement and domestic distribution.

 

In the midstream logistics channel

 

The Company itself has possessed the scheduling capability of more than 200 LNG tankers, which operate across Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Bohai Rim, the Yangtze River Delta and other regions. By cooperating with China Sam and Sinoenergy Corp, the Company plays a protective role in LNG shipment, logistics, distribution and external vehicle deployment for its LNG receiving terminals, which ensures that the imported gas sources are distributed downstream within the prescribed period while enhancing the operational efficiency of the Company's logistics vehicles and improving the profitability of its logistics and wholesale trading business.

 

In downstream terminal distribution

 

The Company currently depends on multiple LNG project companies in the Yangtze River Delta andthe Pearl River Delta regions, and has possessed various direct LNG supplyprojects for industrialend users. This cooperation will not only offer more guarantees for the winter gas supply of theCompany's terminal projects, but also help the Company to further improve its capability to developmore direct LNG supply projects with the enriching gas resource supply.

 

In supply chain finance

 

During the implementation process of this cooperation, there will be a big demand for workingcapital as the business scale expands. The Company will depend on its existing supply chainfinancing capability, continuously broaden the financial cooperation with financial institution supplychain, improve theCompany's supply chain financing capability as a core enterprise, and coordinatewith more domestic LNG operators to establish supply chain financial platform and e-ommerceplatform, improving the pricing power and the say in domestic LNG industry whileenhancing theCompany's profitability in supply chain finance.

 

The entering into of the cooperation agreements was based on the background of equity cooperation between China Sam and Sinoenergy Corp. In order to effectively facilitate the acquisition and merger process and trigger more synergies and effects of complementary advantages, China Sam introduced the Company to participate in the cooperation and made full use of the Company's operation experiences and industry chain resources in the LNG business. Thus, the three parties will leverage on their respective advantages, benefit mutually and cooperate, jointly developing the natural gas market. Based on this cooperation, the  Company may utilize Sinoenergy Corp's Chaozhou and Jiangyin LNG receiving terminals to secure stable LNG supply at low cost, strengthen midstream distribution capability, and enlarge the size of downstream end users, thus boosting the upstream and downstream bargaining power and market share, improving the Group's business profitability and developing the cooperation space between the Company and Sinoenergy Corp in the Mainland and Hong Kong capital markets.

 

Mr. Tommy Cheng, Co-Chairman, CEO and Executive Director of the Group said that "This cooperation is in line with national industry policy orientation on natural gas, and will improve the profitability and industry competitiveness of the LNG industry chain which the Company has deployed for the past three years.Meanwhile, it will alleviate the gas supply tension in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, two major core LNG consumption markets in China."

About Beijing Gas Blue Sky Holdings Limited

Beijing Gas Blue Sky Holdings Limited ("Beijing Gas Blue Sky", HKSE stock code: 6828) is an integrated natural gas provider, distributor and operator, with an emphasis on the midstream and downstream natural gas development. Our natural gas business includes: (i) construction and operation of compressed natural gas ("CNG") and liquefied natural gas ("LNG") refueling stations for vehicles; (ii) construction of natural gas pipelines and operation of city gas projects by providing piped gas; (iii) direct supply of LNG to end-users; and (iv) trading and distribution of CNG and LNG.

 

The Group has adapted to the "One Belt One Road" policy, and focus on operating and investing natural gas business. The Group is actively expanding its business development and distribution, as well as continues to gradually expanding the scale of operations. Currently, t he Group's natural gas projects covered 16 provinces, city and autonomous region in the PRC, namely Liaoning, Jilin, Hubei, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Ningxia Autonomous Region, Shanxi, Beijing City and Shanghai City. The Group is committed to its vision: "develop clean energy, enhance customer value, create a beautiful blue sky". In the future, it will continue to actively investing and developing natural gas business, as well as participating in the development of natural gas industry value chain.

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