据普氏能源资讯2019年7月30日伦敦报道,英国最大的家庭能源供应商、英国天然气公司(BG)的母公司森特里卡(Centrica) 周二宣布计划退出石油和天然气生产,出售其在最近成立的Spirit能源公司的多数股权,成为一家纯粹的天然气和电力公司。
森特里卡已经宣布了出售其核能发电权益的计划。森特里卡表示,该公司预计将在2020年底前出售其在英国Spirit 能源公司中持有的 69%股权。
森特里卡在季度财报中表示:“(勘探和生产)并非森特里卡的战略核心,我们退出Spirit能源公司的的计划与全球向低碳能源结构转型是一致的。”
Spirit能源公司的上游资产由森特里卡的上游业务和德国Bayerngas在挪威的子公司于2017年组成,包括英国和荷兰北海的生产油田、英国海上的莫克姆湾天然气田以及挪威以外的生产资产。
森特里卡表示,由于天然气产量增长被液体产量下降所抵消,Spirit能源公司今年上半年的油气产量同比下滑了2%,至2450万桶油当量。森特里卡表示,预计Spirit能源公司今年的平均产量将与2018年的5790万桶油当量大致持平。
森特里卡表示,该公司将继续拥有并运营英国的Rough天然气田和伊斯顿陆上天然气处理终端,专注于“最大化这两项资产的价值”。
李峻 编译自 Platts
原文如下:
UK's Centrica to exit oil, gas production with sale of Spirit stake
The UK's Centrica announced Tuesday plans to exit oil and gas production, selling its majority stake in the recently formed Spirit Energy, to become a pure-play gas and power utility.
Centrica, which has already announced plans to dispose of its nuclear power generation interests, said it expects to sell its 69% stake in UK-based Spirit Energy by the end of 2020.
"[Exploration and production] is not strategically core for Centrica and our intended exit from Spirit Energy is aligned with the global transition to a lower-carbon energy mix," Centrica said in a quarterly earnings statement.
Formed in 2017 from the upstream businesses of Centrica and the Norwegian subsidiary of Germany's Bayerngas, Spirit's upstream assets include producing fields the UK and Dutch North Sea, the UK's offshore Morecambe Bay gas fields and producing assets off Norway.
Centrica said Spirit's oil and gas production in the first half of 2019 slipped 2% year on year to 24.5 million barrels of oil equivalent as gas volume growth was offset by lower liquids production. It said Spirit's average production this year is expected to be broadly in line with the 57.9 million boe of 2018.
Centrica said it will continue to own and operate the UK's Rough gas field and the onshore Easington gas processing terminal with a focus on "maximizing the value of both of these assets."