卡塔尔石油公司将于6月将支出削减30％

然而，萨阿德·卡阿比（Saad al-Kaabi）在美国卡塔尔商业委员会组织的网络直播中表示，到本世纪中叶大幅扩大卡塔尔石油的液化天然气（LNG）产能的计划仍在进行中。

Kaabi称，我们正在对预算进行修改……6月，我们将开支，资本支出和运营支出减少30％。

全球各大油气公司大幅削减支出，由于各国政府为遏制冠状病毒疫情而实施的旅行限制，导致石油消费出现前所未有的暴跌。

Kaabi表示，他预计石油需求恢复到危机前的水平仅需一两年，并补充道，由于电力需求持续，天然气价格受到的冲击较小。

但他补充称，由于需求减弱，全球最大的液化天然气生产商卡塔尔石油将不会削减天然气出口。

卡塔尔石油希望在2024年前将液化天然气年产量从目前的7700万吨提高到1.1亿吨左右。

Kaabi表示，尽管将扩展项目的商业招标从4月推迟到今年年底，但这些计划仍在进行中。我们正在全力以赴，我们将继续扩大。

他补充道，一旦了解了该项目的资本成本，他预计埃克森美孚，雪佛龙和康菲石油公司等多家大型国际公司将参与招标过程。

郝芬 译自 烃加工网

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Qatar Petroleum to slash spending by 30%

Qatar Petroleum will slash its spending by around 30% this year in the face of the sharp drop in oil and gas prices due to the coronavirus epidemic, its Chief Executive said.

Speaking during a webcast organised by the U.S-Qatar Business Council, Saad al-Kaabi however said that plans to sharply expand Qatar Petroleum’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) capacity by the middle of the decade remain on track.

“We are going through budget revisions... In June we will be somewhere in the range of 30% reduction in expenditure, capex and opex,” Kaabi said.

The world’s top oil and gas companies sharply reduced spending in the wake of an unprecedented collapse in oil consumption triggered by travel restrictions governments around the world imposed to contain the coronavirus epidemic.

Kaabi said he expected oil demand to recover to pre-crisis levels only within a year or two, adding that natural gas prices have suffered less due to continued demand for electricity.

Qatar Petroleum, or QP, the world’s largest LNG producer, will however not cut its gas exports due to the weaker demand, he added.

QP wants to lift its LNG output to around 110 million tonnes per annum by 2024 from today’s 77 mtpa in the first phase of its expansion.

Those plans remain on course, Kaabi said, despite delaying the awarding of commercial tenders for the expansion project from April to the end of the year.

“We’re full steam ahead, we’re going to expand,” Kaabi said.

Once the project’s capital costs are understood in the coming months, he expects a number of major international companies, including Exxon Mobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips to take part in the tendering process, he added.