Equinor将成为“海上风电巨头”

中国石化新闻网讯 据海事新闻9月25日消息称，据雷斯塔能源称，Equinor在其新成立的Dogger Bank海上风力发电厂的数十亿美元资本投资，将使其与主要油气项目相媲美。

能源研究公司表示：“在2026年之前，英国北海的海上风能项目Dogger Bank不仅将是Equinor最大的项目，在此期间，它还将成为全球第六大海上开发项目。”

英国当局周五宣布，Equinor和合资伙伴SSE已被选中开发全球最大的海上风力发电场Dogger Bank，预计从2020年至2026年将获得110亿美元的资本投资。

雷斯塔能源油田服务研究负责人Audun Martinsen表示：“Equinor对海上风电的巨额投资，为萎缩的服务业带来了希望。一项11位数的投资计划——在海上石油和天然气行业是罕见的——在海上风能领域是完全史无前例的。”

为了更好地理解这笔投资，雷斯塔能源对全球所有离岸开发项目的总投资进行了排名。从从Equinor目前的投资组合来看，在2000年至2026年期间，Dogger Bank将位居榜首，超过巴西Carcara和英国Rosebank尚未获批的石油项目。

在全球海上石油领域，Dogger Bank的投资将与巴西梅洛(Mero)和卢拉(Lula)等关键深水石油项目展开竞争。

2019年，EPCI(工程、采购、施工和安装)和海底供应商获得的海上新建石油和天然气合同总价值预计将达到600亿美元左右，我们预计这个数字将在2022年降至430亿美元。

Equinor希望成为全球最大的海上风电运营商。今年7月，该公司赢得了纽约海岸的一个大型项目，这意味着另外30亿美元的潜在投资。另外四个项目，总容量约为7.4 GW，也将在本世纪20年代获得批准。

曹海斌 摘译自 海事新闻

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Equinor to be ‘Offshore Wind Major’

The multi-billion capital investment by Equinor at its new Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm will see it rival its major oil and gas projects, according to Rystad Energy.

"The offshore wind project Dogger Bank in the UK North Sea will not only be Equinor’s largest project through 2026, it will also rank as the sixth largest offshore development project in the world during this period," said the energy research firm.

UK authorities announced on Friday that Equinor and joint venture partner SSE have been chosen to develop the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Dogger Bank, with an expected $11 billion in capital investments from 2020-2026.

Audun Martinsen, head of oilfield services research at Rystad Energy, said: “Equinor’s mega offshore wind investment promises hope for a deflated service industry. An eleven-digit investment program – a rare occurrence within the offshore oil and gas industry – is entirely unprecedented in the offshore wind space.”

To put the investment into context, Rystad Energy ranked all offshore development projects globally by total investments. Looking at Equinor’s current portfolio, Dogger Bank will rank as number one for the period from 2000 to 2026, above the yet-to-be-sanctioned oil projects Carcara in Brazil and Rosebank in the UK.

In the global world of offshore, the Dogger Bank investments will rival key Brazilian deepwater oil projects such as Mero and Lula.

The total value of awarded offshore greenfield oil and gas contracts to EPCI – engineering, procurement, construction, and installation – and subsea providers in 2019 is expected to be around $60 billion, a number we anticipate could fall to $43 billion in 2022.

Equinor hopes to become the world’s largest offshore wind operator. In July, it won a major project off the coast of New York which represents another $3 billion of potential investments. An additional four projects, totaling around 7.4 GW in capacity, are also up for sanctioning in the 2020s.