俄罗斯亚马尔液化天然气出口在冬季加速

中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社8月31日伦敦报道，俄罗斯诺瓦泰克（Novatek）位于北极的亚马尔码头的液化天然气出口量在夏季比预期更快，超过俄罗斯唯一的其他液化天然气设施萨哈林的产量，这是八月来的首次。

这个耗资数十亿美元的项目投入使用的速度让市场感到惊讶，因为这个市场曾经长期拖延。从另一个设施开始的额外数量现在应该及时到达北半球冬季，这是价格飙升的时期。

诺瓦泰克本周早些时候说，它已经开始调试第三列火车或工厂，而且它的前两列火车的运行能力为每年1100万吨（mtpa）。

去年俄罗斯液化天然气出口量为10.8百万吨，几乎全部来自俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司的萨哈林2号场地。亚马尔和萨哈林目前的列车全面生产，俄罗斯液化天然气产量翻了一番，达到20多万吨，使该国成为世界第五大液化天然气出口国。

李方征 编译自 路透社

原文如下：

Russia's Yamal LNG exports accelerate in time for winter

Liquefied natural gas exports from Novatek’s Yamal terminal in the Arctic have come on stream faster than expected over the summer and exceeded volumes from Russia’s only other LNG facility, Sakhalin, for the first time in August.

The pace of commissioning the multi-billion dollar project has surprised a market used to chronic delays. Additional volumes from the start of another facility should now come in time for the northern hemisphere winter, a time of price spikes.

Novatek said earlier this week it had begun commissioning the third train, or plant, and that its first two trains were running at capacity, which is 11 million tonnes a year (mtpa).

Russian LNG exports amounted to 10.8 mtpa last year, almost all of which came from Gazprom’s Sakhalin-2 site. Full production at the current trains of Yamal and Sakhalin doubles Russian LNG output to just over 20 mtpa, making the country the fifth largest LNG exporter in the world.