卡塔尔邀请国际大型石油公司竞标LNG扩建项目

据今日油价10月8日报道，能源事务部长Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi周二表示，卡塔尔已邀请埃克森美孚、康菲石油、壳牌和道达尔等国际石油和天然气公司对卡塔尔全球最大气田和液化天然气出口产能的扩建进行投标。

卡塔尔已宣布计划将其液化天然气产能提高43%，从现在的每年7700万吨增加到5年后的每年1.1亿吨。新的出口能力将包括于2024年完成的扩建项目。未来几年，卡塔尔将与澳大利亚和美国争夺全球最大液化天然气出口国的头衔。

Al-Kaabi表示，卡塔尔计划在今年年底前将North气田的施工合同授予伊朗。Al-Kaabi同时也是国有企业卡塔尔石油公司(Qatar Petroleum)的总裁和首席执行官。在第一季度，获得2024年投产的所有工程合同。”

上个月，Al-Kaabi在接受采访时表示，卡塔尔石油已将几家大型石油公司列入候选名单，这些公司愿意购买卡塔尔大型项目的部分股权，以扩大其液化天然气出口能力，该公司将考虑这些大型石油公司提供的条件，可以换取该项目的哪一部分。

Al-Kaabi对路透表示，卡塔尔已经向国际石油公司发出了竞标这一大型项目的邀请，如果决定了合作伙伴，将在2020年初宣布。

美国能源信息署(EIA)表示，在卡塔尔提高其液化天然气出口能力之前，澳大利亚的液化天然气设施正在提高产量和出口量，并达到满负荷状态，这将导致澳大利亚在未来一年内持续出口比卡塔尔更多的液化天然气。

澳大利亚将成为下一个最大的液化天然气出口国，但由于卡塔尔和美国都计划在未来五年内大幅扩大其液化天然气出口能力，澳大利亚的这一头衔可能仅会保持一段时间。

洪伟立 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

Qatar Invites Big Oil to Bid For LNG Expansion Projects

Qatar has invited international oil and gas majors—including ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Shell, and Total—to file bids for the expansion of the Qatari part of the world’s largest gas field and the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Minister of State for Energy Affairs, told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday.

Qatar has announced plans to increase its LNG production capacity by 43 percent—from 77 million tons annually now to 110 million tons a year in five years’ time. The new export capacity includes expansion projects set to be completed in 2024. Qatar will be competing with Australia and the United States over the next few years for the world’s top LNG exporter title.

Qatar aims to award by the end of this year the contracts for work on the North Field, which Qatar shares with Iran and which Iran calls South Pars, said Al-Kaabi, who is also the president and chief executive at state-held Qatar Petroleum.

“In the first quarter, we would have secured all the contracts for construction to start production in 2024,” Al-Kaabi told Bloomberg.

Last month, Al-Kaabi told Reuters in an interview that Qatar Petroleum had shortlisted several Big Oil firms willing to buy a stake in Qatar’s mega project to expand its LNG export capacity, and would look at what the majors could offer in exchange for a piece of the project.

Qatar has already sent to international oil companies invitations to bid on the mega project, and if it decides to do it with partners, it will announce the decision in early 2020, Al-Kaabi told Reuters.

Until Qatar raises its LNG export capacity, LNG facilities in Australia are ramping up production and exports and reach full capacity, which will result in Australia consistently exporting more LNG than Qatar within the next year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) says.

Australia will be the next top LNG exporter, but it will likely retain that title for just a little while, as both Qatar and the United States plan major expansions in their LNG export capacities over the next five years.