Ineos, the European refining and petrochemicals company, is close to reaching a settlement with Sinopec, after threatening to take the Chinese state-owned oil group to court over an intellectual property dispute.

欧洲炼油和石油化工企业英力士(Ineos)接近与中石化(Sinopec)达成和解。此前该公司曾因一起知识产权纠纷威胁起诉这家中国国有石油集团。

Jim Ratcliffe, Ineos chief executive, said yesterday that the two companies were close to a settlement “based on a thorough discussion of the subject, based on a good relationship, a good understanding, and I think very soon we’ll see a very good solution coming out of that.

英力士首席执行官吉姆拉特克里夫(Jim Ratcliffe)昨天表示，两家公司“在全面讨论相关问题的基础上，在良好的相互关系和相互理解的基础上，接近达成和解，“我认为很快我们就会看到由此得出非常好的解决方案。

Last year, Ineos had announced that it would take an intellectual property complaint against Sinopec to a Chinese court, claiming that Sinopec had built a new acrylonitrile plant without paying technology licensing fees due to Ineos. Acrylonitrile is an ingredient in hard plastics and carbon fibre, used for everything from Lego bricks to the Boeing Dreamliner.

去年，英力士曾宣布将在中国法庭提起对中石化的知识产权诉讼，声称中石化建造了新的丙烯腈工厂，却没有支付应向英力士支付的技术许可费。丙烯腈是硬塑料和碳素纤维的组分之一，用途广泛，从乐高(Lego)积木到波音787梦幻客机(Boeing Dreamliner)。

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