泰国计划建设区域性液化天然气中心

中国石化新闻网讯 据3月9日Gas World报道，在新加坡实现了成为亚洲液化天然气中心的目标后，泰国也表达了自己的远大规划，希望参与成为亚洲首屈一指的液化天然气燃料贸易中心的竞争。泰国矿物部液化天然气管理局代理局长Porrasak Ngamsompark最近在新加坡举办的“国际能源周”活动上证实了这一点。

据世界银行的数据显示，泰国超过70%的电力生产来自天然气。按照目前的情况，泰国国内的天然气产量占该国天然气需求的70%以上，而来自邻国缅甸的管道输送则占其余的30%。

该国的能源政策也以科学的细致的计划展示如何能把泰国变成一个区域性的燃料贸易中心。从现在到2030年，任何建设天然气中心的举措(如果真的实现的话)将为该国经济注入约50亿美元。

从地理角度来看，泰国成为一个枢纽的前景确实很大。它恰好位于液化天然气需求激增的地区——从中国到日本，再到印度、柬埔寨和越南。更重要的是，它拥有为区域液化天然气贸易提供服务的基础设施，这些基础设施最早可能在2021年启动。

事实上，马来西亚首席海事分析师纳泽里·哈立德(Nazery Khalid)表示：“泰国在2017年的主要天然气生产国中排名第22位，而在消费国中排名第13位。天然气储量在世界上排名第44位，这使得泰国政府鼓励发展天然气产业，并加强了天然气生态系统。”

王佳晶 摘译自 Gas World

原文如下：

Thailand reveals LNG hub ambitions

First, it was Singapore that made bare its plans to be an LNG hub in Asia. Not to be outclassed, Thailand too has expressed its own lofty ambitions to get into the race of being Asia’s premier LNG bunker trading hub.

There is plenty of reason why. According to The World Bank, more than 70% of Thailand’s electricity production comes from natural gas.

As it now stands, domestic output is providing for more than 70% of Thailand’s gas needs while pipeline deliveries from neighbouring Myanmar – where gas been found in abundance – account for the rest.

This was affirmed by Porrasak Ngamsompark, Acting Director of the LNG Management Bureau at Thailand’s Department of Mineral Fuels, at an event in Singapore recently when the city-state held its’ International Energy Week.

The nation’s Energy Policy also acknowledged with scientific details how it can turn the nation into a regional trading hub for the fuel. Any move to build a hub, if and when it does come to pass, will inject some $5bn into its economy between now and 2030.

From a geographical standpoint, there does appear plenty of promise for Thailand to be turned into a hub. It lies smack in the region where LNG demand is roaring – right from China, to Japan, to India, Cambodia, and Vietnam. What’s more it has the infrastructure to provide services for regional LNG trading, infrastructure which could get cranking as early as 2021.

In fact, Malaysia’s leading maritime analyst, Nazery Khalid, told gasworld, “Thailand is ranked 22nd as a major gas-producing nation in 2017, while it was the 13th largest consuming nation in the world. Its gas reserves are the 44th largest in the world [thus causing the Thai government] to develop its gas industry and strengthen its gas ecosystem.”