美国能源部放宽液化天然气出口报告要求

中国石化新闻网讯 据世界天然气网站12月20日报道，美国能源部已出台措施，简化美国液化天然气出口商的目的地报告要求。

根据新政策，美国液化天然气出口商现在只需要报告LNG交付国家或地区，而不是最终用途国，以满足能源部的目的地报告要求。

此外，能源部还进一步努力简化液化天然气出口供应、销售和合同的报告要求。

美国能源部长里克·佩里说:“通过简化目的地报告要求，能源部正朝着放松管制的方向迈出重要一步，以便更好地向我们海外的朋友和盟友提供可靠的美国液化天然气。”

政策的改变将涉及液化天然气交付目的地的报告，以及液化天然气出口商必须向能源部提交的供应和销售协议的类型。目前，美国能源部要求一些液化天然气出口授权持有人报告液化天然气出口最终用途的国家，这可能不同于最初实际交付液化天然气的国家。

美国能源部在一份声明中表示，由于报告要求发生了变化，液化天然气出口商仍需继续执行目前对受制裁国家的液化天然气出口禁令。

此外，能源部正在寻求通过拟议的解释性规则澄清哪些类型的供应和销售合同协议需要报告以及何时必须提交。

根据能源部目前的规定，所有长期液化天然气出口授权持有人必须报告所有超过两年的长期供应和销售合同。这项拟议的解释规则开放给公众评论30天。

自2016年美国48个州开始出口液化天然气以来，美国已经出口了1.7万亿立方英尺的天然气。迄今为止，美国能源部已批准向世界上任何未被美国法律或政策禁止的国家长期出口天然气，日产量为23.05亿立方英尺。

李方征 编译自 世界天然气

原文如下：

U.S. DOE to ease LNG exports reporting requirements

The United States Department of Energy has introduced measures to simplify destination reporting requirements for U.S. LNG exporters.

According to the new policy, U.S. LNG exporters are now only required to report the country or countries of LNG deliveries, not the country of end-use, to satisfy the DOE’s destination reporting requirement.

Further, DOE made additional efforts to streamline the reporting requirements for LNG export supply sales and contracts.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said, “by streamlining the destination reporting requirements, the Department of Energy is taking an important deregulatory step forward in order to better provide reliable U.S. LNG to our friends and allies abroad.”

The policy change will address the reporting of LNG delivery destinations and the types of supply and sales agreements LNG exporters must file with DOE. Currently, DOE requires some LNG export authorization holders to report the final country of end-use for LNG exports, which can differ from the country receiving the initial physical delivery of LNG.

With this change in reporting requirements, LNG exporters are still required to continue the current ban on LNG exports to sanctioned countries, DOE said in a statement.

Additionally, DOE is seeking to clarify via a proposed interpretative rule which types of supply and sales contract agreements need to be reported and when they must be filed.

Per DOE’s current regulations, it is required of all long-term LNG export authorization holders to report all long-term, greater than two years, supply and sales contracts. This proposed interpretive rule is open for public comment for 30 days.

Since exports of U.S. LNG began from the lower 48-states in 2016, over 1.7 trillion cubic feet of U.S. natural gas has been exported. To date, the Department of Energy has approved 23.05 Bcf/d of long-term exports of natural gas to any country in the world not prohibited by U.S. law or policy.