中国石化新闻网讯 据rigzone8月7日报道,在尼日利亚因原油盗窃,污染和与石油有关的腐败问题经历了数十年的困境之后,荷兰皇家壳牌有限公司仍然对化石燃料可以改善该国的生活感到乐观。
英荷石油公司正在寻求围绕天然气来发展尼日利亚的国内能源市场。壳牌尼日利亚天然气公司董事总经理Ed Ubong表示,天然气燃料储量丰富,不易被窃取,对环境更有利,并可以支撑起可能雇用数千人的强大工业部门。
他的愿景与今日的尼日利亚截然不同。这个西非国家的制造业是微不足道的。由于在尼日利亚运行集中式能源系统充满了挑战,因此该国从单个柴油发电机获得电力的人数大约是从公用事业获得电力的4倍。
尽管如此,Ubong认为壳牌已经为建立天然气系统奠定了基础,该组织的影响力和庞大的资产负债表可以将尼日利亚近2亿人口转变为新的市场。
徐蕾 摘译自 rigzone
原文如下:
Shell Looks to Gas in Nigeria After Decades of Oil Struggles
After decades of difficulties in Nigeria over crude theft, pollution and oil-related corruption, Royal Dutch Shell Plc still feels optimistic a fossil fuel can improve life in the country.
The Anglo-Dutch oil major is seeking to develop Nigeria’s domestic energy market around natural gas. It’s plentiful, harder to steal, better for the environment and can underpin a robust industrial sector that could potentially employ thousands, according to Ed Ubong, the managing director of Shell Nigeria Gas.
His vision is vastly different to how Nigeria looks today. The West African nation’s manufacturing sector is minute. About four times more people in the country get power from individual diesel generators than from a utility, because running a centralized energy system in Nigeria is fraught with challenges.
Still, Ubong believes Shell has done the groundwork to set up a gas-based system, and that the organization’s influence and large balance sheet can transform Nigeria’s population of almost 200 million people into a new market.