據路透社4月7日報道，卡塔爾石油公司(Qatar Petroleum)首席執行官表示，由于招標進程的推遲，該公司將把新天然氣設施投產的時間推遲到2025年。但該公司并未縮減這個全球最大的液化天然氣項目的規模，盡管該公司擔心全球供應過剩的情況會日益嚴重。

Saad al-Kaabi表示，該公司不會縮減建設6條新的液化天然氣生產線的計劃，但承包商的商業投標和投產時間將會推遲。

作為全球最大的液化天然氣供應商，卡塔爾石油公司計劃到2024年將產量從目前的7700萬噸提高至1.1億噸左右。Kaabi表示，該公司一直希望在本月收到第一階段工程“the North Field East”建設承包商的最終投標，該項目將包括4條生產線的建造。然而，這一計劃目前已被推遲。

路透社于今年2月報道稱，在全球天然氣價格暴跌后，卡塔爾石油公司已將選擇西方合作伙伴進行擴張的時間推遲了數月。

Kaabi表示，選擇這些合作伙伴與最終敲定承包商的投標“密切相關”，并將在年底前完成。卡塔爾石油公司已經將六家國際石油公司列入了該項目第一階段至多30%股份的候選名單。

第二階段“North Field - South”項目將建造兩條生產線，將在2027年之前將卡塔爾的液化天然氣產能提高至1.26億噸/年。

Kaabi表示，該項目的第二階段不會延遲，也不會縮小其范圍。

洪偉立 摘譯自 路透社

原文如下：

Exclusive: Qatar Petroleum not scaling down LNG expansion despite delay in bids – CEO

Qatar Petroleum will postpone the start of production from its new gas facilities to 2025 due to a delay in the bidding process, but is not downsizing the world’s largest liquefied natural gas project despite concerns of a mounting glut, its chief executive told Reuters.

Saad al-Kaabi said the company is not scaling back a plan to build six new LNG production facilities, known as trains, needed for an ambitious domestic scale-up, though commercial bids from contractors and the start of output will be delayed.

QP, the state-run LNG producer in the world’s top supplier of the fuel, had wanted to lift its output to around 110 million tonnes per annum by 2024 from today’s 77 mtpa, as the first phase of its expansion.

Kaabi said the company had been expecting to receive final bids from contractors for the first phase - the North Field East project, which will involve the construction of four trains - this month.

However, that was delayed as firms asked for more time to submit bids due to the global lockdown linked to coronavirus.

Reuters reported in February that QP had delayed choosing Western partners for the expansion by several months after a collapse in global gas prices.

Kaabi said selecting those partners “goes hand in hand” with finalising the contractor bids, and will also happen before the end of the year. QP has shortlisted six international oil firms for up to a 30% stake in the project’s first phase, he said.

The second phase, known as the North Field South project, will boost Qatar’s LNG production capacity to 126 mtpa by 2027 through the construction of two more trains.

Kaabi said there would be no delay in the second phase of the project, or reduction in its scope.