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Gulf oil companies slow $60bn acquisition spree as crude prices fall

Adnoc and Aramco shift focus to dividends in tougher environment for deals

Two of the Middle East’s largest oil companies are scaling back their multibillion-dollar acquisition sprees as expectations of a sustained drop in oil revenues curb their global dealmaking.

Saudi Aramco, the world’s number-one crude producer, and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, known as Adnoc, have been the industry’s most active buyers over the past three years, announcing more than $60bn of acquisitions to expand into gas, chemicals and lubricants. 

But advisers and people familiar with their thinking said the Gulf energy giants had now slowed their M&A activities to reassess, as the impact of lower oil prices starts to bite.

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