据油气新闻网站12月18日沙特阿拉伯报道 阿拉伯石油投资公司（Apicorp）在一份新报告中表示，中东和北非地区天然气行业的承诺和计划投资总额预计在未来五年内将同比减少700亿美元。
在2018年展望中承诺上游投资的9个国家中，有7个国家同比下降。
预计阿联酋和卡塔尔的下游天然气投资将增加。总体而言，中东和北非地区承诺投资下降最为显著的是科威特（接近80%）、沙特阿拉伯（60%）以及阿尔及利亚，约为50%。
就中东和北非地区的天然气消费总量而言，报告显示，工业部门目前约占该地区天然气消费总量的30%。
王磊 摘译自 油气新闻
原文如下：
Mena gas sector spend ‘to slump by $70bn y-o-y’
Total committed and planned investments in the Mena region’s gas sector is expected to decline by $70 billion year-on-year (y-o-y) over the next five years, said the Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (Apicorp) in a new report.
Out of the nine countries with committed upstream investments in the 2018 outlook, seven of them saw a y-o-y decline.
The UAE and Qatar are expected to see an increase in their downstream gas investments. Overall, the decline in Mena committed investments was most notable in Kuwait (close to 80 per cent), Saudi Arabia (60 per cent) and Algeria.
In terms of total gas consumption at the Mena level, the report indicates that the industrial sector currently accounts for roughly 30 per cent of the region’s total gas consumption.
