{"id":236337,"date":"2026-02-19T16:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=236337"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:53:22","slug":"european-commission-approves-socars-acquisition-of-99-82-stake-in-italian-energy-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/236337\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission approves SOCAR\u2019s acquisition of 99.82% stake in Italian energy company"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The European Commission has approved SOCAR&rsquo;s acquisition of a 99.82% stake in Italiana Petroli (IP), one of Italy&rsquo;s leading energy companies, from API Holding, Azerbaijani media report, citing the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction primarily involves the supply of crude oil and refined petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The proposed transaction does not raise any competition concerns, as the companies&rsquo; market positions would remain limited. The proposed deal was reviewed under the simplified merger review procedure,&rdquo; the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has approved SOCAR&rsquo;s acquisition of a 99.82% stake in Italiana Petroli (IP), one of Italy&rsquo;s leading energy companies, from API Holding, Azerbaijani media report, citing the Commission. The transaction primarily involves the supply of crude oil and refined petroleum products. &ldquo;The proposed transaction does not raise any competition concerns, as the companies&rsquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":235988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,95,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236338,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236337\/revisions\/236338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}