据路透社10月17日多哈报道,两名熟悉此事的消息人士对路透社说,由于一条天然气管道发现天然气泄露,卡塔尔推迟了其巴尔赞天然气项目的启动。
这个投资100亿美元的由卡塔尔石油公司和埃克森美孚公司组成的合资公司卡塔尔液化天然气公司(RasGas)担任作业者的项目是为了满足这个准备举办2022年世界杯的海湾国家国内日益增加的能源需求。
在多次延迟以后,这个项目的第一阶段将在11月份开始。当这个项目在2017年上半年达到产能时,它能每天给卡塔尔天然气产量增加20亿立方英尺。消息人士说,但是,这个项目过去几周里发现了天然气泄漏。
多哈的一名知情人士说,此次天然气泄漏是这个项目上游管道中的一条管道发生天然气泄漏。天然气泄漏的影响时下仍在评估中,但这个项目在今年年内不太可能启动。
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原文如下:
Gas Leak Delays Start-Up Of Qatar's Barzan Gas Project
Reuters
Monday, October 17, 2016
DOHA - Qatar has delayed the start-up of its Barzan Gas project because of a leak discovered in a gas pipeline, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
The $10 billion project, a RasGas-operated joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil, is designed to meet rising domestic energy demand in the Gulf state as it prepares to host the soccer World Cup in 2022.
After repeated delays, the project's first phase was due to start in November, boosting Qatari gas production by up to 2 billion cubic feet per day when it reached capacity in the first half of 2017. But a leak was discovered in recent weeks, the sources said.
"There was a gas leakage in one of the project's upstream pipelines, the impact of which is still being assessed," said a Doha-based source familiar with the project who declined to be named as he was not authorised to speak publicly. "A start-up this year is unlikely."