中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社2月26日拉巴斯报道,玻利维亚总统莫拉莱斯周一在拉巴斯宣布,玻利维亚国家石油公司(YPFB)日前与总部设在迪拜的Kampac石油公司和总部设在伦敦的投资公司米纳尔资本公司签署了一项油气勘探和生产的谅解备忘录。
根据谅解备忘录的有关条款,两家公司将向位于玻利维亚北部的具有生产40亿桶石油和12万亿立方英尺天然气潜力的马德雷德迪奥斯盆地投资25亿美元,其中Kampac石油公司将投资5亿美元,而米纳尔资本公司将投资20亿美元。
莫拉莱斯在一份宣布这项协议的声明中说:“与参加我们勘探和生产努力的新合作伙伴签署的协议表明玻利维亚的规范为外国公司提供法律保障。”
地处内陆的玻利维亚是南美洲最大的天然气出口国。但是,与邻国阿根廷和巴西重新谈判合同以及国内储量和产量不断下降可能威胁到玻利维亚的经济。玻利维亚的经济是该地区过去几年里增长最快之一。
李峻 编译自 路透社
原文如下:
Bolivia Reaches Preliminary $2.5 Billion Oil, Gas Investment Deal
Bolivia's state-run oil company YPFB signed a memorandum of understanding with Dubai-based Kampac Oil and London-based investment office Milner Capital for oil and gas exploration and production, Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Monday.
Under the terms of the memorandum, the two companies would invest $2.5 billion in the Madre de Dios basin in northern Bolivia, which has the potential to produce 4 billion barrels of oil and 12 trillion cubic feet of gas. Kampac would invest $500 million and Milner would invest $2 billion.
"These agreements signed with Kampac Oil, based in Dubai, and Milner Capita, based in London - new partners that are joining our exploration and production efforts - show that Bolivian norms give legal security to foreign companies," Morales said in a post on Twitter announcing the deal.
The deal includes investment to search for hydrocarbons in exploratory fields and to increase production in mature fields, Jose Morao Patino, partner and head of Latin America at Milner Capital, said at an event marking the deal in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Landlocked Bolivia is South America's top natural gas exporter, but contract re-negotiations with neighboring Argentina and Brazil as well as declining reserves and production could threaten its economy, which has grown at one of the fastest rates in the region in recent years.