据天然气加工网站2月4日消息 日本石油天然气公司日本国际石油开发株式会社（Inpex Corp）的一位高管向路透社记者表示，全球液化天然气市场的供过于求可能会持续到今年年中，但随后随着东南亚和印度需求的回升，供过于求的局面会有所缓解。
Inpex澳大利亚首席执行官Hitoshi Okawa在佛罗伦萨的会议间隙表示：“目前出现了一种供大于求的局面，并仍在持续，可能会持续到今年年中”。
他补充说：“但亚太地区的经济增长，特别是中国、印度和东南亚国家的经济增长仍在继续，这意味着它们将产生新的能源需求”。
Inpex运营澳大利亚的Ichthys液化天然气工厂。咨询公司伍德麦肯兹表示，作为日本最大的外国投资，该工厂的产量已迅速攀升，达到了年产能890万吨的水平，这一速度超过了液化天然气项目的正常速度，尤其是对于一家正在建设第一个液化天然气项目的公司而言。
到2040年，该公司希望扩大在东南亚的天然气勘探和生产以及中游活动。Okawa表示，公司还希望10%的收入来自可再生能源。
吴恒磊 编译自 天然气加工
原文如下：
Global LNG oversupply set to continue until mid-year
Oversupply in the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market could continue until the middle of the year but then ease as demand from southeast Asia and India picks up, an executive from Japanese oil and gas firm Inpex Corp. told Reuters.
“There is at this moment a kind of oversupply. The oversupply situation is ongoing (..) maybe some time until the middle of this year,” Hitoshi Okawa, Inpex’s Australia chief, said on the sidelines of a conference in Florence.
“But economic growth in Asia Pacific particularly - China and India and southeast Asian countries - their economic growth is still going, so that means they will generate new energy requirements,” he added.
Inpex operates Australia’s Ichthys LNG plant. Production at the plant, Japan’s biggest foreign investment, has climbed rapidly towards its full capacity of 8.9 million tonnes a year, quicker than normal for LNG projects, especially for a company building its first one, consultants Wood Mackenzie have said.
Until 2040, the company wants to expand gas exploration and production, as well as midstream activities, in southeast Asia. The firm also wants 10% of its revenue to be from renewable energy, Okawa said.
