卡塔爾石油未縮減液化天然氣擴(kuò)張規(guī)模

據(jù)路透社4月7日?qǐng)?bào)道，卡塔爾石油公司(Qatar Petroleum)首席執(zhí)行官表示，由于招標(biāo)進(jìn)程的推遲，該公司將把新天然氣設(shè)施投產(chǎn)的時(shí)間推遲到2025年。但該公司并未縮減這個(gè)全球最大的液化天然氣項(xiàng)目的規(guī)模，盡管該公司擔(dān)心全球供應(yīng)過剩的情況會(huì)日益嚴(yán)重。

Saad al-Kaabi表示，該公司不會(huì)縮減建設(shè)6條新的液化天然氣生產(chǎn)線的計(jì)劃，但承包商的商業(yè)投標(biāo)和投產(chǎn)時(shí)間將會(huì)推遲。

作為全球最大的液化天然氣供應(yīng)商，卡塔爾石油公司計(jì)劃到2024年將產(chǎn)量從目前的7700萬噸提高至1.1億噸左右。Kaabi表示，該公司一直希望在本月收到第一階段工程“the North Field East”建設(shè)承包商的最終投標(biāo)，該項(xiàng)目將包括4條生產(chǎn)線的建造。然而，這一計(jì)劃目前已被推遲。

路透社于今年2月報(bào)道稱，在全球天然氣價(jià)格暴跌后，卡塔爾石油公司已將選擇西方合作伙伴進(jìn)行擴(kuò)張的時(shí)間推遲了數(shù)月。

Kaabi表示，選擇這些合作伙伴與最終敲定承包商的投標(biāo)“密切相關(guān)”，并將在年底前完成。卡塔爾石油公司已經(jīng)將六家國際石油公司列入了該項(xiàng)目第一階段至多30%股份的候選名單。

第二階段“North Field - South”項(xiàng)目將建造兩條生產(chǎn)線，將在2027年之前將卡塔爾的液化天然氣產(chǎn)能提高至1.26億噸/年。

Kaabi表示，該項(xiàng)目的第二階段不會(huì)延遲，也不會(huì)縮小其范圍。

洪偉立 摘譯自 路透社

原文如下：

Exclusive: Qatar Petroleum not scaling down LNG expansion despite delay in bids – CEO

Qatar Petroleum will postpone the start of production from its new gas facilities to 2025 due to a delay in the bidding process, but is not downsizing the world’s largest liquefied natural gas project despite concerns of a mounting glut, its chief executive told Reuters.

Saad al-Kaabi said the company is not scaling back a plan to build six new LNG production facilities, known as trains, needed for an ambitious domestic scale-up, though commercial bids from contractors and the start of output will be delayed.

QP, the state-run LNG producer in the world’s top supplier of the fuel, had wanted to lift its output to around 110 million tonnes per annum by 2024 from today’s 77 mtpa, as the first phase of its expansion.

Kaabi said the company had been expecting to receive final bids from contractors for the first phase - the North Field East project, which will involve the construction of four trains - this month.

However, that was delayed as firms asked for more time to submit bids due to the global lockdown linked to coronavirus.

Reuters reported in February that QP had delayed choosing Western partners for the expansion by several months after a collapse in global gas prices.

Kaabi said selecting those partners “goes hand in hand” with finalising the contractor bids, and will also happen before the end of the year. QP has shortlisted six international oil firms for up to a 30% stake in the project’s first phase, he said.

The second phase, known as the North Field South project, will boost Qatar’s LNG production capacity to 126 mtpa by 2027 through the construction of two more trains.

Kaabi said there would be no delay in the second phase of the project, or reduction in its scope.