据普氏能源资讯11月6日布宜诺斯艾利斯报道,阿根廷国家石油公司(YPF)6日在布宜诺斯艾利斯表示,该公司计划明年把重点放在提高天然气产量上,同时还将逐步减少钻井和完井成本以及为其页岩和致密地层项目寻找更多的合作伙伴。
YPF首席财务官丹尼尔·冈萨雷斯6日在一次电话会议上说:“我们已经开始转变我们的业务重点,我们将继续尽我们所能从石油生产转变到天然气生产。在阿根廷,天然气的基本面非常强劲,因此,我们在2016年将生产更多的天然气。”
阿根廷国内53%的能源需求依赖天然气来满足,目前有30%的天然气需求缺口,需要通过管道从玻利维亚进口以及以液化天然气形式从全球市场进口。
阿根廷在过去10年里天然气日产量下降20%至1.17亿立方米导致了国内管道输气能力严重闲置,这个问题能够用增加产量,尤其是增加本国西南部地区的天然气产量来解决。
众所周知,阿根廷西南部地区是阿根廷拥有最多页岩和致密资源的地区。
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原文如下:
Argentina's YPF targets growth in gas output, lower well costs in 2016
Buenos Aires (Platts)--6 Nov 2015
Argentina's state-run energy company YPF said Friday it plans to focus on boosting natural gas production in 2016, while also pursuing a gradual reduction in drilling and completion costs and looking for more partners for shale and tight play projects.
"We have been shifting and we will continue to shift as much as we can from oil to natural gas production," Chief Financial Officer Daniel Gonzalez said during a conference call. "The fundamentals for natural gas are very strong in Argentina. There will be more gas production in 2016."
Argentina relies on gas to meet 53% of its energy demand, and it is running a 30% deficit in gas demand that it is filling with imports by pipeline from Bolivia and the global market in the form of LNG.
A 20% drop in production to 117 million cu m/day over the past decade has left pipelines with slack capacity that can be filled with increased output, in particular from the southwest of the country, a region that holds most of Argentina's substantial shale and tight resources.