据普氏能源资讯9月17日约旦安曼报道，伊拉克日前与荷兰船舶工程公司Boskalis签署了一项框架协议，双方将在位于波斯湾的阿博特油轮终端以南建造一个人工岛，以使伊拉克的石油出口能力在3年内增加近一倍，并增加石油存储空间。

伊拉克石油部周一在伊拉克和Boskalis签署协议后在其网站上发表声明说，伊拉克石油日出口能力将增加300万桶，而石油储存能力将增加600万桶。

目前海湾地区的石油日产能为360万桶用于出口以及1000万桶用于储存。伊拉克石油部长塔米尔·加德班在声明中说，伊拉克政府内阁今年6月批准了这个项目。相关条款并未披露。加德班称这个人工岛为“工业岛”。

标普全球普氏能源资讯看到的一份Boskalis文件显示，这个项目在2016年曾被估计耗资22.5亿美元。这个项目还包括在人工岛上为300人建造住房。

李峻 编译自 Platts

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Iraq signs deal with Boskalis that could almost double oil exports capacity

Iraq signed a heads of agreement with Dutch firm Boskalis to build an artificial island south of the Abot tanker terminal in the Persian Gulf to almost double its export capacity and increase storage room in three years.

Export capacity would be expanded by 3 million b/d and storage capacity by 6 million barrels, the Iraq oil ministry said Monday in a statement on its website after the agreement was signed by Iraq and Boskalis.

Gulf capacity is currently 3.6 million b/d for exports and 10 million barrels for storage. The Council of Ministers, Iraq's executive branch, approved the project in June, oil minister Thamir Ghadhban said in the statement. Terms were not disclosed. The ministry calls it "Industrial Island."

In 2016, the project was estimated to cost $2.25 billion, according to a Boskalis document seen by S&P Global Platts. The project includes building housing for 300 people on an island located 4 nautical miles south of the Abot terminal.