據(jù)今日石油網(wǎng)2022年7月16日布宜諾斯艾利斯報(bào)道，阿根廷政府幾位高管7月15日表示，阿根廷的天然氣生產(chǎn)商正著眼于向世界市場出口天然氣，這是因?yàn)榘⒏⒌囊粋€(gè)建設(shè)新天然氣管道的項(xiàng)目正在進(jìn)行中，這條天然氣管道將允許阿根廷提高瓦卡姆爾塔頁巖氣田的天然氣產(chǎn)量，為最終的液化天然氣出口終端提供供應(yīng)。

在EconoJournal新聞網(wǎng)站組織的天然氣每日研討會上，阿根廷第六大天然氣生產(chǎn)商Pluspetrol的銷售經(jīng)理Adrián Burtnik說，出口液化天然氣“將有助于將瓦卡姆爾塔頁巖盆地的巨大天然氣潛力貨幣化，因?yàn)樗鼘⒆阋怨?yīng)當(dāng)?shù)厥袌龊统隹凇?span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 40px;">。

阿根廷多年來一直尋求開發(fā)世界最大頁巖遠(yuǎn)景區(qū)之一的瓦卡姆爾塔頁巖盆地，以出口天然氣。然而，自2018年以來的一場金融危機(jī)推遲了這一計(jì)劃的進(jìn)展。 

事實(shí)上，根據(jù)阿根廷能源秘書處公布的最新統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)，阿根廷5月份的天然氣日總產(chǎn)量從去年同期的1.213億立方米上升12.1%，達(dá)到1.36億立方米，其中瓦卡姆爾塔頁巖盆地和致密遠(yuǎn)景區(qū)的頁巖氣日產(chǎn)量增長39%，達(dá)到創(chuàng)紀(jì)錄的7600萬立方米。 

這一增長使阿根廷天然氣日總產(chǎn)量達(dá)到國內(nèi)平均需求1.4億立方米的水平，冬季的峰值為1.8億立方米。這將推進(jìn)阿根廷增加天然氣出口的機(jī)會，目前阿根廷每天出口到巴西、智利和烏拉圭的天然氣被限制在1000萬立方米以內(nèi)。

李峻 編譯自 今日石油網(wǎng)

原文如下：

Argentina positioning for global gas supplier role

Argentina’s natural gas producers are setting their sights on exporting supplies to the world market as a project gets underway to build a new pipeline that will allow them to boost production from the Vaca Muerta shale play to supply an eventual LNG export terminal, several executives said July 15.

Exporting LNG “would help monetize the great potential of Vaca Muerta because it would be enough to supply the local market and export,” Adrián Burtnik, a sales manager at Pluspetrol, the country’s sixth-biggest gas producer, said at the Gas Day seminar organized by the EconoJournal news website.

Argentina has been seeking for years to develop Vaca Muerta, one of the world’s biggest shale plays, to export gas. A financial crisis since 2018, however, has delayed the advances beyond increasing output from the play. Indeed, the country’s total gas production rose 12.1% to 136 million cu m/d in May from 121.3 million cu m/d in the year-earlier month, led by a 39% increase to a record 76 million cu m/d in production from Vaca Muerta and tight plays, according to Energy Secretariat data.

The growth has taken total output to a level in line with the country’s average demand of 140 million cu m/d, with peaks of 180 million cu m/d in winter. This is boosting the chances of increasing exports, which are now limited to less than a total of 10 million cu m/d in deliveries to Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.