据俄罗斯卫星新闻网8月31日安克雷奇报道,美国前能源部副部长查克·麦康奈尔31日在接受俄罗斯卫星新闻网记者采访时表示,由于能源价格仍然很低,石油公司在短期内不太可能投资北极地区的钻井作业。
由于美国页岩油热潮和沙特阿拉伯稳产导致全球供应过剩,油价已从去年夏季的每桶100美元暴跌到了目前每桶大约40美元。
麦康奈尔说,石油公司将不会离开北极地区,但是,他们至少在短期内将不可能投资北极地区的钻井。
他补充说,在短期内,北极钻井对满足全球对石油需求不可能是必要或重要的。
麦康奈尔强调说,在长期内,石油公司将继续致力于北极问题以及开发在北极地区找到和开采能源的技术。
他说,北极钻井向全球石油工业提出了独特的技术、环境和运输挑战。
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原文如下:
Oil Firms Unlikely to Invest in Arctic Amid Low Prices
ANCHORAGE (Sputnik)
31.08.2015
Oil companies are unlikely to invest in Arctic drilling in the short-term as energy price remains low,but will not turn away from the region in the long-term,former US Assistant Secretary of Energy Chuck McConnell told Sputnik on Monday.
Oil prices have fallen to approximately $40 per barrel down from $100 a barrel in summer 2014 due to excess supply led by the US shale oil boom and steady production in Saudi Arabia.
“Oil companies will not turn away from that Arctic region,but they will probably not be investing in it at least short-term,”McConnell said.
In the short-term, he added, “Arctic drilling is not likely to be necessary or important to meet global demand for oil.”
McConnell stressed that in the long-term oil companies will continue to work on Arctic issues and develop technologies to find and extract energy.
Arctic drilling presents unique technical, environmental and transportation challenges to the global oil industry.