据路透社10月26日消息称，美国最大的天然气买家切尼尔能源公司上周五请求美国能源监管机构批准其在俄克拉荷马州建造价值10.25亿美元的Midship天然气管道。
切尼尔请求美国联邦能源监管委员会（FERC）授权开始在三个部分建设234英里长（377公里）长的管道。
切尼尔表示，预计将于2019年初完成该项目。
今年7月，至少两家美国生产公司—格尔夫波特能源公司和马拉松石油公司要求FERC批准建造Midship天然气管道，因为目前的天然气基础设施无法满足俄克拉荷马州中南部石油省和位于俄克拉荷马州的阿纳达科盆地加拿大公司和翠丰集团的预期需求。
Midship旨在每天从阿纳达科盆地向俄克拉荷马州本宁顿附近的现有管道输送14.4亿立方英尺的天然气，用于向墨西哥湾沿岸和东南部市场输送天然气，这这些地区对国内消费和液化天然气出口的燃料需求在不断增长。
10亿立方英尺的天然气足够为大约500万美国家庭提供一天燃料。
预计到2019年底，美国液化天然气出口总量将从现在的38亿立方英尺增加到2019年的83亿立方英尺，到2020年将达到96亿立方英尺，这将使美国在2019年成为全球第三大液化天然气出口国。
美国大部分液化天然气出口终端，包括路易斯安那州的Cheniere's Sabine Pass，都位于路易斯安那州和德克萨斯州的墨西哥湾。
曹海斌 摘译自 路透社
原文如下：
Cheniere seeks U.S. OK to start U.S. liquefied natural gas company Cheniere Energy Inc, the nation’s biggest buyer of gas,Cheniere asked the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for authorization to start building the proposed 234-mile (377 km) pipeline in three segments.
Cheniere said it expects to complete the project in early 2019.
In July, at least two U.S. production companies, Gulfport Energy Corp and Marathon Oil Corp, asked FERC to approve Midship because current gas infrastructure cannot accommodate anticipated demand from the South-Central Oklahoma Oil Province (SCOOP) and the Sooner Trend Anadarko Basin Canadian and Kingfisher (STACK) plays in Oklahoma.
Midship is designed to deliver 1.44 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of gas from the Anadarko basin to existing pipelines near Bennington, Oklahoma, for transport to Gulf Coast and Southeast markets where demand for the fuel for domestic consumption and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export is growing.
One billion cubic feet of gas is enough to fuel about five million U.S. homes for a day.
Total U.S. LNG export capacity is expected to rise to 8.3 bcfd by the end of 2019 and 9.6 bcfd by the end of 2020 from 3.8 bcfd now, which should make the country the third-biggest LNG exporter by capacity in 2019.
Most of the U.S. LNG export terminals, including Cheniere’s Sabine Pass in Louisiana, are located or being built along the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana and Texas.
