中国石化新闻网讯 据油价网7月26日消息称，雪佛龙正在考虑在地中海东部建造一个浮式液化天然气接收站，作为亚洲和欧洲的出口中心。
雪佛龙全球天然气主管在接受日本日经新闻采访时表示，东地中海地区“供应顺畅，所以会有新的发展前景。我们正着眼于该市场的浮式液化天然气”。
雪佛龙是诺贝尔能源Noble Energy的母公司，Noble Energy在以色列地中海部分的几个大型海上天然气项目中持有股份。据日经新闻报道，该地区最大的利维坦油气田拥有超过6000亿立方米的可采储量，相当于4.4亿吨液化天然气。
在该报告发布的几天前，雪佛龙天然气业务负责人Freeman Shaheen表示，该公司没有在美国建设液化天然气产能的计划。
Shaheen在接受路透社采访时表示，这个决定基本上是在建设液化天然气出口能力和在二叠纪钻更多井之间做出选择，最后还是决定在海外投资，包括在东地中海。
雪佛龙是二叠纪盆地开采的最大参与者，拥有约220万英亩的资产，其产量一直在增长。比起在墨西哥湾沿岸建造一个液化天然气接收站，在以色列地中海沿岸建造这样一个接收站似乎更具有商业价值。
事实上，在东地中海沿岸该地点离欧洲和亚洲这两个最大的液化天然气市场更近是有意义的。这将使未来终端生产的液化天然气对更多买家来说更实惠，对生产商来说更有利可图。
曹海斌 译自 油价网
原文如下：
Chevron Considers Building LNG Export Terminal In The Mediterranean
Chevron is considering the construction of a floating LNG terminal in the Eastern Mediterranean to use as an export hub for Asia and Europe.
That’s according to Chevron’s global head of gas, who spoke to Japan’s Nikkei, saying that the Eastern Mediterranean was "being supplied really well, so [there's] going to be another development. We're looking at floating LNG in that market.
Chevron is the parent company of Noble Energy, which has stakes in several large offshore gas projects in the Israeli section of the Mediterranean. The biggest, Leviathan, has recoverable reserves of more than 600 billion cubic meters which, according to Nikkei, is equivalent to 440 million tons of liquefied natural gas.
The report comes out several days after Chevron’s top gas man, Freeman Shaheen, said the company had no plans to build LNG capacity in the United States.
Speaking to Reuters, Shaheen said that the decision was basically a choice between building LNG export capacity and drilling more wells in the Permian or investing abroad, including in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Chevron is the largest player in the Permian with some 2.2 million acres in assets and its production there has been growing. And while it may not make business sense to build an LNG terminal on the Gulf Coast, it seems to make business sense to build such a terminal off the Israeli Mediterranean coast.
Indeed, it does make sense for the location to be much closer to the two biggest LNG markets these days, Europe and Asia. That would make the LNG produced at the future terminal more affordable for more buyers and more profitable for the producers.
