据路透社布宜诺斯艾利斯报道，阿根廷政府上周六称，6月份阿根廷天然气产量上升到每天1.4亿立方米，为11年来最高水平。

这一数字与去年同期相比增长了5.8%。

阿根廷财政部将其增长归功于瓦卡缪尔塔页岩开采区产量的增长，该地区的产量相当于比利时的面积，可能拥有世界上最大的页岩气和石油储量之一。

政府表示，6月份的石油日产量也达到了49.7万桶，比去年同期增长2.5%，这标志着16个月的不间断增长。

政府表示，生产的增长使它能够增加出口，包括6月份每天向智利输送433万立方米至630万立方米的天然气。

阿根廷政府表示，今年上半年阿根廷的能源贸易赤字缩小至1.26亿美元，而2018年上半年的赤字超过10亿美元。

总统Mauricio Macri将于10月份寻求连任，他押注于瓦卡缪尔塔的发展，以削减能源进口，使该国成为碳氢化合物的净出口国，从而创造出新的外汇收入来源。

詹晓晶摘自路透社

原文如下：

Argentina's June gas production hits highest level in 11 years

Argentina’s gas production rose to 140 million cubic meters a day in June, the highest level in 11 years, the government said on Saturday.

That amount represented growth of 5.8% compared with the same period last year.

Argentina’s treasury ministry credited the growth to an increase in production at the Vaca Muerta shale play, which is about the size of Belgium and could house one of the biggest reserves of shale gas and oil in the world.

Oil production also reached 497,000 barrels a day in June, up 2.5% from the same period a year earlier, marking 16 months of uninterrupted growth, the government said.

The government said the growth in production enabled it to boost exports, including sending between 4.33 million cubic meters and 6.3 million cubic meters of gas daily to Chile in June.

Argentina’s energy trade deficit for the first half of the year narrowed to $126 million, compared with a deficit of more than a billion dollars in the first six months of 2018, the government said.

President Mauricio Macri, who will seek re-election in October, is betting on the development of Vaca Muerta to cut energy imports and make the country a net exporter of hydrocarbons, creating a new source of foreign currency income.