據世界石油2020年7月20日報道，南非著名天然氣和氦氣生產商Renergen表示，該公司日前已邀請申請者參與南非首次液化天然氣（LNG）拍賣，所拍賣的LNG產自其在南非第3大州自由州的一個項目。

Renergen表示，該公司擁有南非唯一的陸上石油開采權。Renergen已邀請感興趣的各方申請投標其弗吉尼亞天然氣項目生產的LNG。

申請注冊的截止日期將是8月27日，其后會舉行不公開拍賣，但拍賣日期尚未確定。

Renergen表示，這個包括遍布維爾科姆、弗吉尼亞和托伊亞森的面積達18.7萬公頃天然氣田勘探和生產權的項目將生產出平均甲烷含量超過95%的高質量LNG。

Renergen還擁有世界上最豐富的氦氣資源之一，氦氣可用于冷卻醫用核磁共振成像掃描儀中的超導磁體，在深海潛水時可用作呼吸氣體，在氣球和飛艇中可用作提升氣體。

Renergen計劃在2021年前完成該項目的第一階段，生產出LNG和氦氣，這個項目的第二階段預計將在2023年前投產。

李峻 編譯自 世界石油

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Renergen to hold South Africa's first LNG auction

Natural gas and helium producer Renergen has invited applicants for South Africa’s first LNG auction for LNG produced at its project in the Free State, the company said.

Renergen, which said it holds the only onshore petroleum production rights in South Africa, has invited interested parties to apply to bid for the allocation of LNG produced at its Virginia Gas Project.

The registration for applications will close on Aug. 27 with a blind auction to be held thereafter at an unconfirmed date.

The project, which comprises exploration and production rights of 187,000 hectares of gas fields across Welkom, Virginia and Theunissen, will produce high-quality LNG with an average content of more than 95% methane, the company said.

It also has one of the world’s richest sources of helium, used to cool superconducting magnets in medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, as a gas to breathe in deep-sea diving and as a lifting gas in balloons and airships.

Renergen plans to complete phase 1 of the project to produce LNG and helium by 2021 and expects phase 2 to be available by 2023.