卡塔尔的巨型拉斯拉凡石油化工项目日前终于获得批准
美国和亚洲公司都将参与这个巨型石化项目
美国石油巨头康菲公司在确保从卡塔尔到德国的天然气供应方面发挥了重要作用
中国石化新闻网讯 据油价网报道，卡塔尔一直是地缘政治紧张局势的主要受益者，从而确保了其在全球的最大液化天然气(LNG)出口国的地位，并积极推进其旗舰北部油田的扩张计划。作为这一雄心勃勃的计划的必然结果，卡塔尔上周宣布，卡塔尔将继续推进期待已久的巨型拉斯拉凡石化项目，这个项目将利用阿联酋的部分天然气扩张计划，提高其高价值石化产品的出口。考虑到卡塔尔的地理位置——长期以来，它一直有必要走一条微妙的外交道路。然而，巨型拉斯拉凡石化项目的主要公司不仅来自美国，还来自美国在亚洲的几个主要盟友。
美国雪佛龙菲利普斯化学公司将牵头建设位于拉斯拉凡的投资60亿美元的乙烯项目，该项目将以年产210万吨乙烯的乙烷裂解装置为特色。根据卡塔尔能源公司的说法，这将使其成为中东地区最大的乙烯项目，也是世界上最大的乙烯项目之一。卡塔尔能源公司将与美国公司共同运营这个项目，卡塔尔能源公司将以70/30的比例支持该项目。预计将在2026年开始生产，拉斯拉凡石化综合体还将包括两条聚乙烯生产线，年产170万吨高密度聚乙烯(HDPE)聚合物产品。这将使卡塔尔的石化产品年总产能增加到近1400万吨。
卡塔尔能源部长兼卡塔尔能源公司首席执行官萨阿德·卡阿比表示：“(这个石化综合体)将使我们的乙烯产能翻一番，并将我们当地的聚合物产量从每年260万吨增加到400万吨以上。对拉斯拉凡工业城的支柱投资是卡塔尔能源公司下游扩张战略的一个重要里程碑。这不仅将促进卡塔尔下游和石化行业的进一步扩张，还将加强我们作为上游、液化天然气和下游行业全球主要参与者的综合地位。 ”
在这一点上，值得注意的是，在美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学受过教育的卡阿比接着强调，一旦位于得克萨斯州奥兰治的新世界级石化项目投产，卡塔尔能源公司作为全球主要参与者的地位将进一步增强，该项目再次与雪佛龙菲利普斯化学公司合作，由卡塔尔能源公司的合资企业金三角聚合物公司执行。不到两个月前，卡塔尔能源公司和雪佛龙菲利普斯化学公司做出最终投资决定，继续在美国得克萨斯州墨西哥湾沿岸建设85亿美元的金三角聚合物工厂。
同样有趣的是，这些决定几乎是在美国康菲公司确保卡塔尔向德国供应天然气的同时做出的。正如油价网在上述交易时所强调的那样，卡塔尔能源公司与美国公司签署了两项销售和购买协议，卡塔尔将从2026年起向德国出口液化天然气至少15年，对德国而言，液化天然气来的正是时候。
根据来自卡塔尔能源公司首席执行官卡阿比当时的一份声明，柏林和多哈之间的这两项协议将为德国每年提供200万吨液化天然气，从卡塔尔的拉斯拉凡运往德国北部的布伦斯比特尔液化天然气终端。此外，卡阿比补充说，这两笔交易标志着卡塔尔向德国签署的首个长期液化天然气供应协议，供应期限至少为15年，从而有助于德国的长期能源安全。康菲公司参与其中，因为其子公司之一将从卡塔尔购买液化天然气，然后将这些液化天然气输送到目前仍在开发中的德国布伦斯比特尔终端。
值得注意的是，德国的新液化天然气协议的天然气将来自卡塔尔的北部油田东(NFE)项目。NFE是第一个也是更大的两阶段北部油田扩建计划，其中包括6条液化天然气生产线，到2027年将卡塔尔的天然气液化能力从每年7700万吨提高到1.26亿吨。北部油田是构成世界最大天然气田的两部分的一半。这个面积达9700平方公里的大气田估计拥有1800万亿立方英尺的非伴生天然气和至少500亿桶的天然气凝析油储量。卡塔尔6000平方公里的区域——“北部油田”——是其世界领先液化天然气出口国地位的基石。
李峻 编译自 油价网
原文如下：
Qatar To Move Ahead With Ambitious Petrochemical Megaproject
· The huge Ras Laffan Petrochemicals Project got the green light last week.
· Both U.S. and Asian companies will participate in this megaproject.
· U.S. oil giant ConocoPhillips was instrumental in ensuring gas supplies from Qatar to Germany.
Qatar has been a principal beneficiary of the war early last year, securing its top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter position and vigorously pursuing an expansion program in its flagship North Field. As a corollary of this ambitious plan, Qatar announced last week that it is to move ahead with the long-anticipated Ras Laffan Petrochemicals complex that will utilise some of the Emirate’s gas expansion program to enhance its higher-value petrochemicals exports. Given Qatar’s geographical position - it has long been necessary for it to tread a delicate diplomatic path. However, the huge Ras Laffan Petrochemicals Project features major companies not just from the U.S. but from several of the U.S.’s major allies in Asia.
The U.S.’s Chevron Phillips Chemical will take the lead in building the US$6 billion ethylene project located in Ras Laffan that will feature an ethane cracker with a capacity of 2.1 million tons of ethylene per annum. This will make it the largest in the Middle East and>“[This complex] will double our ethylene production capacity and increase our local polymer production from 2.6 to more than 4 million tons per annum,” said Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, chief executive officer of QatarEnergy and Qatar’s Energy Minister. “This cornerstone investment in Ras Laffan Industrial City marks an important milestone in QatarEnergy’s downstream expansion strategy[...] It will not>It is apposite to note at this point that the Penn State University-educated Al-Kaabi then went>It is also interesting to note that these decisions have come at around the same time as the U.S.’s ConocoPhillips was instrumental in ensuring gas supplies from Qatar to Germany. As highlighted by OilPrice.com at the time of the deal, two sales and purchase agreements signed between QatarEnergy and the U.S. company for the Qataris to export LNG to Germany for at least 15 years from 2026 came at just the right time as far as Germany was concerned.
These two deals between Berlin and Doha will provide Germany with 2 million metric tonnes per annum of LNG, sent from Ras Laffan in Qatar to Germany’s northern LNG terminal of Brunsbuettel, according to a statement at the time from QatarEnergy’s Al-Kaabi. Additionally, he added, the two deal marked the first ever long-term LNG supply agreements from Qatar to Germany, with a supply period that extends for at least 15 years, thus contributing to Germany’s long-term energy security. ConocoPhilips is involved, as>It is also interesting to note that the new LNG agreements for Germany will be sourced from Qatar’s North Field East (NFE) project. The NFE is the first and larger of the two-phase North Field expansion plans, which includes six LNG trains that will ramp up Qatar’s liquefaction capacity to 126 million tonnes per year by 2027 from 77 million. The North Field is one half of the two parts – the other part belonging to China’s key ally in the Middle East. This 9,700 square kilometre gas reservoir holds an estimated 1,800 trillion cubic feet of non-associated natural gas and at least 50 billion barrels of natural gas condensates. Qatar’s 6,000 square kilometre section – the ‘North Field’ – is the cornerstone of its world-leading LNG exporter status.