雪佛龙正式批准启动全球最大的天然气项目
雪佛龙正式批准启动全球最大天然气项目英国《金融时报》彼得?史密斯悉尼、 卡萝拉?霍约斯伦敦报道
Gorgon, the Australian liquefied natural gas project which has a globally significant resource base estimated at 40,000bn cubic feet of natural gas, was officially given the green light on Monday when Chevron said it would proceed with the A$43bn development.
The milestone came nearly three decades after gas was discovered in the fields off the Western Australian coast and followed years of work to secure federal, state and environmental approvals in Australia.
Jim Blackwell, president of Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production, said the first delivery of gas is expected to be shipped in 2014 from a processing facility that at its peak will supply 15m tonnes per annum of LNG.
“Gorgon will supply cleaner burning natural gas for the growing Asia Pacific and Australian markets,” he said. Over time, Gorgon is forecast to generate A$300bn of gas exports over 20 years and its sheer scale will curtail the development prospects for some of the other 27 LNG projects being considered in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
The gas project is one of the largest in the world and the biggest ever undertaken in Australia, a country that analysts believe could become be the dominant LNG supplier in little more than a decade.
Gorgon also refocuses the LNG gas industry on the Asia Pacific region as well as heralding a shake-up in the hierarchy of Asia's consumers that will see China replace Japan as the region's dominant LNG buyer.
Sales contracts for more than half of Gorgon's annual output of LNG have already been agreed with Chinese, Japanese, Indian and South Korean customers
雪佛龙周一表示，将启动规模为430亿澳元（合370亿美元）的高更开发项目，该澳大利亚液化天然气项目就此正式获批。这一具有重要全球意义的资源储备，估计蕴藏着40万亿立方英尺的天然气。
这一里程碑式的进展，距离西澳海上天然气田发现天然气储备已历时近30年，为了获得澳大利亚联邦及州政府、以及环保部门的批准，各方也付出了多年努力。
雪佛龙亚太区勘探与生产公司总裁吉姆?布莱克韦尔表示，预计首批天然气将于2014年由一个加工处理设施交付，该设施最高年产能将达到1500万吨。
布莱克韦尔表示：“高更项目将为日益壮大的亚太及澳大利亚市场提供更清洁的天然气。”假以时日，预计高更项目在未来20年将生产3000亿澳元的天然气，而其庞大的规模，将削弱其它一些天然气项目的发展前景，包括澳大利亚和巴布亚新几内亚正在考虑的另外27个液化天然气项目。
高更项目是全球最大的天然气项目之一，也是澳大利亚有史以来上马的规模最大的天然气项目。分析师认为，再过十一、二年，澳大利亚可能成为最主要的液化天然气供应商。
高更项目还将把液化天然气行业的关注焦点重新聚集到亚太地区，同时也预示着亚洲天然气客户排名的重大变化——中国将取代日本，成为该地区最大的液化天然气买家。
中国、日本、印度和韩国的客户已达成了销售协议，将买下高更项目液化天然气年产量中的一大半。
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