据世界天然气7月17日报道，富通银行说，它已与高速能源公司签订了生产液化天然气(LNG)的第一份长期供应协议，以便后者向中国出口。

该公司在声明中表示，今年早些时候，蒂尔伯里液化天然气(Tilbury LNG)在卑诗省达美(Delta)的扩建项目完工，使这一长期供应协议成为可能。

根据这项为期两年的协议，到2021年夏季，每年将有5.3万吨液化天然气从蒂尔伯里运往中国，每周约有60个ISO集装箱(标准尺寸的集装箱)从蒂尔伯里运往中国。

液化天然气的出口量相当于加拿大西部不列颠哥伦比亚省3万多户家庭一年的平均供热量。

富通银行负责市场开发和对外关系的副总裁道格拉斯?斯托特表示:“这是加拿大天然气定期运往中国的首个此类协议。”

2017年，富通成为加拿大第一家向中国出口液化天然气的公司。从那时起，富通就开始向客户供应液化天然气，并以现货形式出口到中国。

中国的工业和住宅正在从煤炭转向天然气，以显著改善空气质量，应对气候变化。

国际能源署表示，液化天然气进口对于中国能源体系向限制全球变暖的方向转型至关重要。采用ISO集装箱运输液化天然气，有助于满足中国工业和公共事业客户的能源需求，这些客户没有连接到管道网络，因为这些集装箱几乎可以在任何地方运输，而且不需要大型再气化终端将液化天然气转化为天然气。

薛珂 编译自 世界天然气

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FortisBC to supply Tilbury LNG volumes to China

FortisBC said it has entered into its first term supply agreement to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) for Top Speed Energy Corp. to export to China.

This term supply agreement was made possible by the completion of the Tilbury LNG expansion project in Delta, B.C. earlier this year, the company said in its statement.

The two-year agreement will see 53,000 tonnes of LNG a year or about 60 ISO containers (standard-sized shipping containers) a week shipped from Tilbury to China by the summer of 2021.

The volume of LNG to be exported is equivalent to the volume necessary to heat more than 30,000 average B.C. households for a year.

“This is the first agreement of its kind that will see Canadian LNG shipped regularly to China,” said FortisBC vice-president of market development and external relations, Douglas Stout.

In 2017, FortisBC became the first company in Canada to supply LNG for export to China. Since then FortisBC has been supplying LNG to customers for export to China on a spot basis.

Chinese industries and residential buildings are switching from coal to natural gas to significantly improve air quality and address climate change.

According to the International Energy Agency, LNG imports will be critical to transition China’s energy system to a path that limits global warming. Shipping LNG by ISO container helps meet the energy demands of industrial and public utility customers in China who are not connected to a pipeline network as the containers can be transported virtually anywhere and don’t require large regasification terminals to convert the LNG back into natural gas.