据油气加工网9月4日报道称，一份监管文件显示，作为全球最大的液化天然气（LNG）供应商之一，荷兰皇家壳牌公司已要求美国监管机构将其在路易斯安那州完成液化天然气出口项目的时间延长五年至2025年。
该项目与美国中游公司Energy Transfer成立的对半持股合资企业，计划将查尔斯湖的现有进口和再气化设施改造成年产1645万吨的多管线设施。
这一推迟使得美国这个大型出口项目退出了获得最终投资决定（FID）以尽早开始运营的竞争之列，有预计称，在2023年到2024年之间液化天然气供应将出现下滑趋势。
北美的大约十几个项目，主要集中在墨西哥湾，正在争夺今年或明年初的FID，以便及时开始生产以获得利益。但获得批准批准的项目越多，其他项目开工的可能性就越小，因为预期的供应不足变成了供过于求。
上周五，这家英荷合资公司在给联邦能源监管委员会的一封信中表示，推迟投产的原因是，在2016年以530亿美元的价格收购了BG集团后，壳牌公司接管了该项目，促使其重新评估并达成新协议。
该公司表示，在此过程之后，项目计划没有改变，但已达成新的50-50持股结构，壳牌承诺承担50％的出口能力。
徐蕾 摘译自 油气加工网
原文如下：
Shell delays LNG export project to 2025
Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) suppliers, has asked U.S. regulators to extend the time by which it should complete an LNG export project in Louisiana by five years to 2025, regulatory filings showed.
The project, a 50-50 venture with U.S. midstream company Energy Transfer, envisaged converting an existing import and regasification facility in Lake Charles into a multi-train, 16.45 million tonnes per year (mtpa) facility.
The delay takes a major U.S. export project out of the race to achieve a final investment decision (FID) in time to start operations during an anticipated supply downturn in 2023-2024.
About a dozen projects in North America, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, are vying for FID this year or early next year to start production in time to hit that sweetspot. But the more get approved, the less likely other projects are to go ahead as the expected dearth turns into oversupply.
The delay is due to Shell's takeover of the project after its $53 billion acquisition of BG Group in 2016 prompted it to re-evaluate and strike new agreements, the Anglo-Dutch company said in a letter dated last Friday to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
It said following this process, the project plans had not changed but a new 50-50 ownership structure with Energy Transfer had been struck and Shell had committed to taking 50% of the export capacity.
