BP批准非洲海上大型跨境LNG项目

中国石化新闻网讯 据今日油价12月21日消息，石油巨头英国石油公司及合作伙伴周五宣布了对西非塞内加尔和毛里塔尼亚海上的Greater Tortue Ahmeyim液化天然气项目的最终投资决定。

塞内加尔和毛里塔尼亚政府以及项目合作伙伴英国石油公司、科斯莫斯能源公司和两家国家石油公司Petrosen和SMHPM就生产共享条款达成一致后，非洲最深的超深井开发项目获得了最终投资决定。

BP表示，Greater Tortue Ahmeyim项目将从超深水海底系统和中水浮式生产、储存和卸载船中生产天然气。然后，这些天然气将被转移到位于毛里塔尼亚和塞内加尔海上边界的一个近岸枢纽的浮式液化天然气设施。FLNG设施设计目的是平均每年提供约250万吨液化天然气，该气田的天然气资源总量估计约为15万亿立方英尺。

英国石油公司表示，释放这一数量的天然气的潜力相当于非洲2017年全年天然气产量的两倍左右，该公司还指出该项目的地理位置非常适合向欧洲、南美和亚洲市场出口天然气。

项目活动计划最早在2019年第一季度执行启动，预计2022年将生产首批天然气。

继壳牌在10月公布加拿大首个液化天然气出口项目的最终投资决定后，英国石油公司成为过去两个月中第二个为大型液化天然气项目开绿灯的欧洲石油和天然气巨头。加拿大液化天然气公司是壳牌、马来西亚国家石油公司、中石油、日本三菱和韩国天然气公司的合资企业。拥有该企业风险投资40%的最大股东壳牌表示，加拿大项目的第一批液化天然气预计将在未来十年中期之前实现。

曹海斌 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

BP Approves Major Cross-Border LNG Project Offshore Africa

Supermajor BP and partners announced on Friday the final investment decision for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim liquefied natural gas (LNG) project offshore Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa.

The ultra-deep development, Africa’s deepest, received final investment decision after the governments of Senegal and Mauritania and the partners in the project—BP, Kosmos Energy, and the two countries’ national oil companies Petrosen and SMHPM—agreed on the production sharing terms.

The Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project will produce gas from an ultra-deepwater subsea system and mid-water floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, BP said. The gas will then be transferred to a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility at a nearshore hub on the Mauritania and Senegal maritime border. The FLNG facility is designed to provide around 2.5 million tons of LNG per year on average, with the total gas resources in the field estimated to be around 15 trillion cubic feet.

The potential to unlock that amount of gas equals to around twice Africa’s entire 2017 gas production, BP said, noting that the project’s location is ideally placed for exports to markets in Europe, South America, and Asia.

Project execution activities are planned to start as early as in the first quarter of 2019, with first gas expected in 2022.

BP is the second European oil and gas major to have given the green light to a major LNG project in the past two months, after Shell announced the final investment decision for Canada’s first LNG export project in October. LNG Canada is a joint venture among Shell, Malaysia’s Petronas, PetroChina, Japan’s Mitsubishi, and Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS). Shell, which has the largest stake in the venture—40 percent, says that first LNG from the Canadian project is expected before the middle of the next decade.