卡塔尔石油未缩减液化天然气扩张规模

中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社4月7日报道，卡塔尔石油公司(Qatar Petroleum)首席执行官表示，由于招标进程的推迟，该公司将把新天然气设施投产的时间推迟到2025年。但该公司并未缩减这个全球最大的液化天然气项目的规模，尽管该公司担心全球供应过剩的情况会日益严重。

Saad al-Kaabi表示，该公司不会缩减建设6条新的液化天然气生产线的计划，但承包商的商业投标和投产时间将会推迟。

作为全球最大的液化天然气供应商，卡塔尔石油公司计划到2024年将产量从目前的7700万吨提高至1.1亿吨左右。Kaabi表示，该公司一直希望在本月收到第一阶段工程“the North Field East”建设承包商的最终投标，该项目将包括4条生产线的建造。然而，这一计划目前已被推迟。

路透社于今年2月报道称，在全球天然气价格暴跌后，卡塔尔石油公司已将选择西方合作伙伴进行扩张的时间推迟了数月。

Kaabi表示，选择这些合作伙伴与最终敲定承包商的投标“密切相关”，并将在年底前完成。卡塔尔石油公司已经将六家国际石油公司列入了该项目第一阶段至多30%股份的候选名单。

第二阶段“North Field - South”项目将建造两条生产线，将在2027年之前将卡塔尔的液化天然气产能提高至1.26亿吨/年。

Kaabi表示，该项目的第二阶段不会延迟，也不会缩小其范围。

洪伟立 摘译自 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.