据烃加工在线10月8日消息称，西方石油公司宣布启动该公司在二叠纪盆地的首个太阳能设施，以直接为二叠纪盆地提高采收率油田作业提供动力。该公司通过旗下子公司Oxy低碳合资公司（OLCV）宣布，已经签署了一份从2021年开始的109兆瓦太阳能的长期电力采购协议，将用于二叠纪盆地的业务。

西方石油公司总裁兼首席执行官Vicki Hollub表示：“通过使用无排放的太阳能电力，西方石油公司朝着实现我们的碳中和目标迈出了重要的一步。在我们的运营中使用太阳能是Oxy低碳合资公司提高盈利能力和可持续性的另一种方式，同时应对减少大气温室气体的挑战。””

由西方石油公司在德克萨斯州敖德萨附近的埃克托县兴建的戈德史密斯油田太阳能设施，扩大了公司通过在运行中使用零排放的能源来经济降低碳足迹的承诺。这个占地120英亩的油田是德克萨斯州第一个直接为石油和天然气生产提供电力的大型太阳能发电设施，拥有17.4万块总容量为16兆瓦的光伏电池板，足以为戈德史密斯油田的生产提供电力。First Solar生产了光伏板，并与OLCV签订了运营该设施的合同。

OLCV最近还与麦格理绿色投资集团(GIG)和Core solar LLC的一家合资企业签署了一份为期12年的太阳能发电采购协议，该公司在西德克萨斯州的太阳能项目将于2021年投产。GIG是绿色基础设施投资、项目交付和投资组合资产及相关服务的管理方面的专家，Core Solar是公用事业规模太阳能发电厂的开发商。

OLCV总裁理查德·杰克逊表示：“作为二叠纪盆地的最大生产商，我们正将许多低碳投资和项目的重点放在该地区，目标是成为生产低碳能源的领导者。太阳能设施和长期太阳能协议进一步使我们能够实现成本效益，并通过使用低碳电力来降低我们运营的碳强度，这两项协议最终有望每年减少超过16万吨的二氧化碳排放。”

曹海斌 摘译自 烃加工在线

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First-of-its-kind solar facility directly powering oil and gas operations

Occidental announced the start-up of the company’s first solar facility to directly power an enhanced oil recovery field operation in the Permian Basin. The company, through its Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV) subsidiary, also announced that it has signed a long-term power purchase agreement for 109 MW of solar energy, beginning in 2021, for use in its Permian operations.

"Occidental is taking an important step toward realizing our aspiration to become carbon neutral through the use of emissions-free solar electricity," President and CEO Vicki Hollub said. "Using solar energy in our operations is another way Oxy Low Carbon Ventures is enhancing the profitability and sustainability of our business while meeting the challenge of reducing atmospheric greenhouse gases."

The Goldsmith field solar facility, built by Occidental in Ector County near Odessa, Texas, expands on the company’s commitment to economically lower its carbon footprint by using emissions-free power sources in operations. The 120-acre field is the first large-scale solar facility of its kind to directly power oil and gas operations in Texas and features 174,000 photovoltaic panels with a total capacity of 16 MW — enough to power the operations at the Goldsmith field. First Solar manufactured the photovoltaic panels and is under contract with OLCV to operate the facility.

OLCV also recently signed a 12-year solar power purchase agreement with a joint venture between Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) and Core Solar LLC, whose solar project in West Texas will be operational in 2021. GIG is a specialist in green infrastructure principal investment, project delivery and the management of portfolio assets and related services and Core Solar is a developer of utility scale solar plants.

"As the top producer in the Permian, we are focusing many of our low-carbon investments and projects in the region with the goal of becoming the leader in producing lower-carbon energy," OLCV President Richard Jackson said. "The solar facility and long-term solar power agreement further enable us to realize cost efficiencies and reduce the carbon intensity of our operations through the use of lower-carbon electricity, which together are ultimately expected to eliminate more than 160,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year."