据天然气工业7月30日消息称，美国液化天然气开发商Tellurian公司最终达成协议，将其位于路易斯安那州的Driftwood出口工厂的液化天然气出售给石油巨头荷兰皇家壳牌的一个子公司。
消息公布后，Tellurian的股价上涨了12.8%，至4.13美元。
壳牌的协议标志着Tellurian在10周内完成的第三笔交易，总计900万吨/年，Tellurian表示，这几乎是Driftwood计划中的前两个工厂2750万吨/年的全部产能。
早期的交易是与大宗商品交易商Vitol和Gunvor达成的，在10年的时间里，每笔交易的收入都约为120亿美元。
Tellurian首席执行官Octavio Simoes在一份声明中说：“有了这些(协议)，我们现在已经完成了销售，以支持首批两座工厂的投产。Tellurian现在将专注于为Driftwood提供融资，以通知柏克德公司在2022年初继续施工。”
近年来，随着印度等国购买更多这种超冷燃料，以满足快速增长的能源需求，同时让消费者摆脱对污染更严重的煤炭的依赖，对液化天然气的需求激增。
壳牌能源执行副总裁Steve Hill说：“到 2040 年，液化天然气的需求预计将增加近一倍。这笔交易将确保我们的投资组合在 2020 年代中期获得额外的竞争力。”
Driftwood 是十几个北美液化天然气项目之一，这些项目一再推迟开工决定，主要是因为签署长期交易的客户数量不足，无法为这些数十亿美元的设施提供资金。
朱佳妮 摘译自 天然气工业
原文如下：
Tellurian to sell LNG from Louisiana export plant to Shell
U.S. LNG developer Tellurian Inc. has finalized agreements to sell LNG from its proposed Driftwood export plant in Louisiana to a unit of oil major Royal Dutch Shell.
Tellurian shares jumped 12.8% to $4.13 align="justify"> The Shell agreements mark the third deal Tellurian has finalized in 10 weeks, totaling 9 MTPA, which Tellurian said is nearly all the capacity of the proposed 27.5-MTPA Driftwood's first two plants.
The earlier deals - each worth about $12 billion in revenue over 10 years - were with commodity traders Vitol and Gunvor.
"With these (agreements), we have now completed the sales to support the launching of the first two plants. Tellurian will now focus align="justify"> Demand for LNG has surged in recent years as countries, including India, buy more of the super-cooled fuel to meet fast-growing energy needs while also weaning consumers off dirtier coal.
“LNG demand is expected to nearly double by 2040. This deal secures additional competitive volumes for our portfolio by the mid-2020s," Shell Energy Executive Vice President Steve Hill said.
Driftwood is one of more than a dozen North American LNG projects that have repeatedly pushed back decisions to start construction due primarily to an insufficient number of customers signing the long-term deals needed to finance the multibillion-dollar facilities.