据油气技术9月16日消息称，参与谈判的5名伊拉克高级石油官员表示，伊拉克即将与石油巨头BP和埃尼集团就一项出口管道项目达成协议该项目最初是伊拉克与美国能源巨头埃克森美孚一项大型交易的一部分。

消息人士对路透表示，根据拟议的4亿美元协议，英国石油公司和意大利埃尼集团将负责建设两条海底石油管道，供伊拉克南部通过墨西哥湾出口石油，由于讨论尚未公布，消息人士拒绝透露该名称。

这些官员说，管道工程原本是规模更大的530亿美元项目的一部分，埃克森美孚今年早些时候似乎准备推进这个项目，但由于合同纠纷和安全方面的担忧，与巴格达达成的协议受到了阻碍。

这个为期30年的大型项目是埃克森美孚在伊拉克扩张计划的重点。伊拉克是欧佩克第二大产油国，而削减交易计划可能会拖累该公司的野心。

在BP和埃尼集团与巴格达方面举行会谈之前，伊拉克官员6月份宣布，已选定韩国现代工程建设有限公司建造一座价值24亿美元的海水注入设施，这是最初与埃克森石油公司谈判的另一部分内容。

曹海斌 摘译自 油气技术

原文如下：

Iraq close to pipeline deal with BP and Eni

Iraq is close to reaching a deal with oil majors BP and Eni for an export pipeline project that was initially planned as part of a mega-deal with US energy giant ExxonMobil, according to five senior Iraqi oil officials involved in the negotiations.

Under the proposed $400 million agreement, British company BP and Italy’s Eni would run the scheme to build two seabed oil pipelines for Iraq’s southern exports through the Gulf, the sources told Reuters, declining to be named as the discussions have not been made public.

The pipeline work was meant to be part of a larger, $53 billion project that Exxon looked poised to move ahead with earlier this year, but an agreement with Baghdad was held back by contractual wrangling and security concerns, the officials said.

The 30-year mega-project is the focus of Exxon’s plans to expand in Iraq, Opec’s second-largest producer, and a chipping away of schemes from the deal could drag on the company’s ambitions.

The BP and Eni talks with Baghdad follow an announcement from Iraqi officials in June that South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co Ltd had been selected to build a $2.4 billion seawater injection facility - another part of the deal originally on the table with Exxon.