据路透社10月9日开普敦报道,南苏丹石油部一名官员周三表示,南苏丹将于本月晚些时候启动全国八个油田开发许可证的拍卖。
这位官员在一次石油与能源会议上表示,南苏丹的石油产量已达到每日17.8万桶,该国的目标是在未来两年内达到每日20万桶。
“我们正在努力提高石油产量,”南苏丹石油部负责规划、培训和研究的总干事阿坎杰洛·奥克旺·奥勒(Arkangelo Okwang Oler)在开普敦的一次石油会议上表示。
奥勒补充说,南苏丹的长期目标是将日产量提高到35万桶,但未指定时间表。
这一水平是南苏丹2012年之前的最高产量,当时一场持续五年的内战让这个年轻国家的石油产业几乎陷入停滞。
奥勒说:“我对我们正在建立一个稳定的政府感到乐观。”
今年8月,南苏丹在上尼罗州北部发现了一处小型油田,这是南苏丹自2011年独立以来首次发现石油。
奥勒表示,石油部长阿瓦·丹尼尔·庄(Awow Daniel Chuang)将于10月29日至30日在首都朱巴举行的会议上正式启动许可证招标,南苏丹将在2020年第一季度公布结果。
李方征 编译自 路透社
原文如下:
South Sudan to launch auction of licenses for eight oilfields
South Sudan will kick-start an auction of licenses to develop eight oilfields around the country later this month, an oil ministry official said on Wednesday.
South Sudan’s oil production has reached 178,000 barrels per day (bpd) and the country aims for output to reach 200,000 bpd within the next two years, the official said at an oil and power conference.
“We are working on increasing the production of oil,” said Arkangelo Okwang Oler, director-general for planning, training and research at South Sudan’s oil ministry, speaking at an oil conference in Cape Town.
Long-term, South Sudan aims to ramp up production to 350,000 bpd, Oler added, without specifying a time frame.
That level was South Sudan’s peak production before 2012, when a five-year civil war brought the young country’s oil industry to a virtual standstill.
“I am optimistic that we are moving toward a stable government,” Oler said.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have agreed to form a transitional government by the middle of November, the information minister said last month.
South Sudan made a small oil discovery in Northern Upper Nile State in August, its first since independence in 2011.
Oler said oil minister Awow Daniel Chuang would officially launch the tender for the licenses at a conference in the capital Juba on Oct. 29-30, and that South Sudan would declare the results in the first quarter of 2020.