BP将加大对中东油田的投资

    中国石化新闻网讯 据11月26日Rigzone消息：英国石油公司(BP)表示，在向可再生能源转型并努力降低排放之际，它将加大对中东油田和天然气田的投资。

    BP是伊拉克、阿拉伯联合酋长国和阿曼等国的主要石油生产商。其在伊拉克经营着世界第三大油田鲁迈拉。BP中东地区高级副总裁斯蒂芬·威利斯表示，该公司在提高天然气产量的同时，也在专注于低成本的石油。

    欧洲石油巨头正在寻求更绿色的能源以应对气候变化。BP正在出售资产并削减股息以应对疫情引发的石油市场动荡。该公司目标是到2030年将碳氢化合物产量减少40%，并且不会在任何新的国家勘探原油。

    在中东，一些国家开始开发可再生能源并更多地关注天然气，因为天然气的生产和燃烧比石油和煤炭排放的碳要少。

    伊拉克鲁迈拉油田的日产量略低于140万桶。石油减产是为了让伊拉克遵守欧佩克4月达成的配额，并维持产量。BP致力于确保在欧佩克限制解除后，该油田(6月日产147万桶)可以提高产量。

    威利斯表示，在没有工人在场进行打井等工作的情况下，鲁迈拉产能将降至每天100万至120万桶。BP和伊拉克政府并没有将日产能提高到210万桶的时间表，不过在未来几年产能可能增加到170万桶。

    据彭博社上周报道，就在BP进军伊拉克的同时，其竞争对手埃克森美孚公司也在寻求出售其在伊拉克西古尔纳1号油田的股份，预计至少能卖到5亿美元。许多西方公司被伊拉克的政治不稳定所困扰。

    威利斯称，BP可以在阿曼更快地提高产能。公司将根据市场需求，在明年年初之前，从61号区块的Khazzan和Ghazeer气田实现15亿立方英尺/天的产能。通过进一步投资，日产量可能会再增加4亿立方英尺。

    在阿布扎比，BP正与国有石油生产商Adnoc合作，将陆上油田的日产量提高到200万桶以上。BP持有这些油田10%的股份。公司还计划在未来十年从阿联酋主要产油的巴德油田开采天然气。

    冯娟 摘译自 Rigzone

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    BP to Invest More in Middle East Oil Fields

    BP Plc said it will invest more money in Middle Eastern oil and natural-gas fields even as it transitions to renewable energy and tries to lower emissions.

    The company is a major producer in countries such as Iraq, where it operates the world’s third-largest oil field of Rumaila, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. It’s focusing on their low-cost oil, while also boosting output of gas, according to Stephen Willis, BP’s senior vice president for the Middle East.

    “We will continue to invest in these,” Willis said in a video interview from Oman, without specifying how much BP planned to spend. Deposits in Iraq, the UAE emirate of Abu Dhabi and Oman have “world-leading operating cost, capital cost and production efficiency performance.”

    European oil majors are seeking greener sources of energy to combat climate change. BP, which is selling assets and cutting its dividend in response to oil’s coronavirus-triggered crash this year, is targeting a 40% decline in hydrocarbon production by 2030 and won’t explore for crude in any new countries.

    In the Middle East, several countries are beginning to exploit renewable energy resources and focus more on gas, the production and burning of which emits less carbon than oil or coal.

    Iraq, the second-largest oil producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, continues to flare large quantities of gas. BP is trying to help the Gulf country instead use it to generate power. Iraq’s oil minister has also asked BP to develop renewable energy.

    Oil production at Rumaila in southern Iraq is slightly below 1.4 million barrels a day, Willis said. Output was cut to enable Iraq to comply with OPEC quotas agreed in April and for maintenance, he said. BP is working to ensure that the field, which pumped 1.47 million barrels daily in June, can raise production once the OPEC restrictions are eased.

    Rumaila’s capacity would decline to 1 million to 1.2 million barrels a day without workers adding wells, maintaining pressure and separating out water, Willis said. BP and the Iraqi government don’t have a timeline for reaching the planned peak-production level of 2.1 million barrels a day, though the field’s capacity will probably be increased to 1.7 million barrels in the next several years, he said.

    BP’s push in Iraq is happening as rival Exxon Mobil Corp. seeks to sell its stake in the country’s West Qurna 1 field, which could fetch at least $500 million, Bloomberg reported last week. Many Western firms have been put off by Iraq’s political instability.

    BP can raise capacity more quickly in Oman, Willis said. The company will, depending on market demand, reach full capacity of 1.5 billion cubic feet per day by early next year from the gas fields of Khazzan and Ghazeer in Block 61, he said. It could add another 400 million cubic feet per day of output with further investment, he said.

    In Abu Dhabi, BP is working with government-owned producer Adnoc to boost the capacity of onshore oil fields beyond 2 million barrels daily. BP holds a 10% stake in those fields.

    It also aims to extract gas from the emirate’s Bad field, which mostly holds oil, this decade, Willis said.

    BP’s third-largest region for production and reserves is Asia, which includes the Middle Eastern fields. Asia comes behind North America and Europe, which is the company’s most significant region in output terms due to a 20% stake in Russia’s Rosneft Oil Co.