据油价网2021年8月27日报道，澳大利亚最大的独立油气生产商伍德赛德石油公司首席执行官梅格·欧尼尔对《市场观察网》（MarketWatch）记者表示，由于澳大利亚石油和矿业巨头必和必拓在墨西哥湾运营优质资产，该地区将提供一些良好的增长机会。
欧尼尔在一次采访中说：“当我们看着墨西哥湾的优质资产以及我们在澳大利亚的优质资产以及在特立尼达、多巴哥、墨西哥和塞内加尔等地的其他机会时， 我认为这次合并最令人兴奋的一件事就是它确实给了我们一个大幅增加的增长选择。”
8月早些时候，必和必拓通过一项全股票合并交易将其在墨西哥湾的石油业务出售给了这家澳大利亚石油巨头。
伍德赛德石油公司在当时的声明中表示：“伍德赛德石油公司与必和必拓的油气业务合并，将带来更强大的资产负债表、更大的现金流和持久的财务实力，为近期的计划开发和未来的新能源提供资金。”
奥尼尔表示，必和必拓在墨西哥湾的资产尤其值钱。 这些资产包括Shenzi和Neptune两个油田的运营股份，以及Atlantis和Mad Dog两个油田的非运营股份。 必和必拓最近批准了一笔5.44亿美元的现金注入，用于开发Shenzi North油田。
奥尼尔对《市场观察网》记者表示：“我们认为，这些资产有很大的运行空间。”
据Offshore Technology的数据，Shenzi油田的可采储量估计在3.5亿至4亿桶油当量之间，还有更多的潜在储量，这些储量也被列为开发目标。 这个油田原油日产能为10万桶，但在第一年的生产中就超过了这个水平。
Neptune油田的储量估计在1亿至1.5亿桶之间，日产5万桶原油。
由英国石油公司运营的亚特兰蒂斯油田是墨西哥湾第三大油田。 其原油日产量为20万桶。 BP运营的另一个油田Mad Dog油田拥有2亿至4.5亿桶油当量储量，日产量约为8万桶。
李峻 编译自 油价网
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Woodside: Gulf Of Mexico Has Solid Growth Potential
The Gulf of Mexico offers some good growth opportunities thanks to the quality assets BHP operates there, Australia’s Woodside Petroleum’s chief executive Meg O’Neill told MarketWatch.
"One of the things that I think is really exciting about the merger is it does give us a substantially increased growth optionality when we look at the quality assets in the Gulf of Mexico, the quality assets we have here in Australia and then other opportunities in places like Trinidad, Tobago, Mexico and Senegal," she said in an interview.
BHP sold its oil business to the Australian major earlier this month in an all-stock merger deal.
“Merging Woodside with BHP’s oil and gas business delivers a stronger balance sheet, increased cash flow and enduring financial strength to fund planned developments in the near term and new energy sources into the future,” Woodside said in its statement at the time.
BHP’s assets in the Gulf of Mexico, according to O’Neill, were particularly valuable. The assets include operating stakes in two fields—Shenzi and Neptune—and non-operating interests in two other fields, Atlantis and Mad Dog. BHP recently approved a $544-million cash injection for the development of Shenzi North.
"We believe there is significant running room in those assets," O’Neill told MarketWatch.
The Shenzi field holds estimated recoverable reserves of 350 to 400 million barrels of oil equivalent and more in potential reserves that are also being targeted for exploitation, according to Offshore Technology. It has a production capacity of 100,000 bpd but exceeded that in the first year of production.
The Neptune field has reserves estimated at between 100 and 150 million barrels and the capacity to produce 50,000 bpd of crude oil.
Atlantis, operated by BP, is the third-largest oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. It has a production capacity of 200,000 bpd of crude oil. Mad Dog, another field operated by BP, holds between 200 and 450 million barrels of oil equivalent and can produce some 80,000 bpd.