中国石化新闻网讯 据道琼斯伦敦12月1日消息,英国石油公司(BP)计划推进墨西哥湾一个主要的深水石油项目,这表明石油公司在长达两年的石油市场低迷周期结束之际开始试探性地返回成本昂贵的项目。
这个旨在扩大路易斯安娜州海岸Mad Dog油田产能的项目已经延期数年。BP和合作伙伴已经努力削减该项目的成本。
BP表示,公司已经将Mad Dog油田二期项目的成本从2013年时的200亿美元削减至当前的90亿美元。
Mad Dog油田二期项目将新增14万桶/天的产量,当前该油田的产量约为8万桶/天石油和约6000万立方英尺/天的天然气。该扩能项目计划在目前作业平台约6英里处安装一个浮动生产设施。
该项目预计2021年底投产,但仍需要获得英国石油的合作伙伴必和必拓和雪佛龙公司的批准。
唐绍红摘译自道琼斯
原文如下:
BP to Proceed with Deep Water Project in Gulf of Mexico
By Sarah Kent
LONDON -- BP PLC plans to press ahead with a major deep water project in the Gulf of Mexico -- the latest evidence oil companies are tentatively wading back into big-ticket projects amid signs a two-year crude-market slump is ending.
The project to expand production from the Mad Dog oil field off the coast of Louisiana has faced years of delays. BP and its partners struggled to bring down costs.
The oil giant said it had reduced the cost of Mad Dog phase 2 -- as the project is known -- to $9 billion, compared with $20 billion in 2013.
The second phase of Mad Dog would add the capacity to pump an extra 140,000 barrels a day to a project currently producing about 80,000 barrels a day of oil and about 60 million gross cubic feet of natural gas. The project involves installing a floating production facility about six miles from the existing platform.
The project is expected to begin production in late 2021, but it still needs approval from BP's partners, BHP Billiton Ltd. and Chevron Corp..