今年全球油气行业将重点开发天然气

中国石化新闻网讯 据油气技术1月25日消息称，领先的数据和分析公司GlobalData表示，计划于2020年对整个油气价值链进行的最终投资决定(FID)，将把重点放在天然气开发上。

该公司的报告《2020年全球油气行业最终投资决定》显示，今年针对上游和中游行业的FID主要集中在天然气和液化天然气（LNG）上。这包括澳大利亚和卡塔尔主要液化天然气出口国的项目，以及北美和非洲关键增长地区的项目。

GlobalData石油和天然气管理分析师Will Scargill表示：“世界正日益将天然气视为过渡燃料，而液化天然气的兴起正推动这一转变，尤其是对亚洲主要经济体而言。然而，本世纪20年代中期市场份额的激烈竞争，加上高资本支出要求，可能意味着并非所有项目都符合要求。”

在下游行业，新项目的开发预计将集中在石化部门，而不是炼油厂。印度和中国的需求增长中心贡献了最多的项目，但是美国和俄罗斯的FID也有许多新的发展目标。

Scargill继续说道：“美国新建的石化产能计划，进一步证明了天然气对该行业的影响。页岩气的繁荣提供了廉价的乙烷原料，推动了经济在多年停滞后的快速增长。”

曹海斌 摘译自 油气技术

原文如下：

2020 oil and gas FIDs mark growth in importance of gas

Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) planned across the oil and gas value chain in 2020 are set to focus on natural gas developments, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

The company’s report, ‘Global Oil & Gas FIDs in 2020’, reveals that FIDs targeted for this year in the upstream and midstream sectors are heavily weighted towards gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG). This includes projects in the leading LNG exporters of Australia and Qatar, as well as in the key growth regions of North America and Africa.

Will Scargill, Managing Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “The world is increasingly looking to natural gas as a transition fuel and the rise of LNG is facilitating this shift, particularly for major Asian economies. However, the high level of competition for market share in the mid-2020s combined with high capex requirements may mean that not all projects make the cut.”

In the downstream sector, the development of new projects is expected to be focused in the petrochemicals segment over refineries. The demand growth centers of India and China contribute the most projects, but a number of new developments are also targeting FID in the US and Russia.

Scargill continues: “Plans for new petrochemical capacity in the US are more evidence of natural gas shaping the industry. The shale gas boom has provided cheap ethane feedstock driving rapid growth after years of stagnation.”