据7月29日Sudan Tribune报道,在上周举行的第三届南苏丹油气大会期间,南苏丹正寻求吸引国际融资,以帮助其油气行业的发展。
石油部长奥乌·丹尼尔·庄(Awow Daniel Chuang)表示,这个年轻的国家正在寻求投资,以重振石油和能源领域的冗余项目。这些项目此前未能成功,主要原因是缺乏资金以及五年多的国内暴力冲突造成的破坏。
南苏丹将与非洲石油和电力合作,于10月28日至30日举办第三届年度油气大会,重点讨论金融、油田技术和社区发展等问题。
奥乌表示,最主要的是把重点放在融资上,并利用国际资金和石油和天然气方面的专业知识,来应对该国面临的挑战。
他强调:“自2017年以来,南苏丹一直依靠非洲石油和电力会议向世界推销其石油产业,该国寻求在肯尼亚和乌干达等新起者之前巩固其作为该地区主要产油国的地位。到2020年,南苏丹计划将石油产量提高一倍,这将是一个不可思议的里程碑。该国拥有庞大的陆上石油储备基地和广阔的未开发地区,这使得一轮授权谈判非常令人兴奋。我们很高兴在2019年非洲石油与电力公司和2019年南苏丹石油与电力公司举办的2020年石油和天然气授权会议上宣布这一决定。”
在2018年9月签署恢复经济活力的和平协议几个月后,依赖石油生产为财政预算提供资金的南苏丹目前正艰难地增加石油产量。
目前,这个年轻的国家原油日产量为17.5万桶。
洪伟立 摘译自 Sudan Tribune
原文如下:
South Sudan looking for new investments in oil and gas
South Sudan is seeking to attract international finance to help develop its oil and gas sector during the upcoming third oil and gas conference in the country, an official said last week.
The Petroleum minister, Awow Daniel Chuang said the young nation seeks investments to revive redundant projects in the oil and energy sector, which failed to take off largely due to lack of finance and disruption caused by the more than five years of a violent conflict.
South Sudan will host its third annual oil and gas conference in partnership with Africa Oil and Power, focusing on issues like finance, oil field technology and community development from Oct 28-30.
Awow said it is important to focus on financing to tackle challenges the country faces and tap international funding and expertise in oil and gas.
South Sudan, he stressed, has since 2017 relied on the Africa Oil and Power conferences to market its oil industry to the world as the country seeks to consolidate its position as the major oil producer in the region ahead of new comers like Kenya and Uganda.
“This is an incredible milestone in South Sudan’s plans to double oil production by 2020. The country has a massive onshore reserve base and vast unexplored areas that make a licensing round very exciting. We are excited to host the announcement of the 2020 oil and gas licensing round at Africa Oil & Power 2019 and South Sudan Oil & Power 2019,” said Guillaume Doane, CEO of Africa Oil & Power.
South Sudan, which depends on oil production to finance its fiscal budget is currently struggling to increase oil production, months after the signing of the revitalized peace accord in September 2018.
Presently, the young nation is pumping 175,000 barrels per day of crude oil.