据普氏能源资讯12月4日休斯顿报道，美国能源部预计，到2025年前，阿巴拉契亚盆地的乙烷日产量将飙升至64万桶，这将是2013年水平的20倍以上，这将促使美国能源部长里克•佩里推动在该地区建立一个石化产品储存中心。
美国能源部周二向国会提交了一份91页的报告，报告强调了在该地区开发一个乙烷储存中心的潜力来利用产自马塞勒斯和尤蒂卡页岩远景区的低成本天然气和天然气液体。
佩里在华盛顿向美国国家石油委员会发表讲话时表示，美国需要将石化基础设施多元化，使其不局限于得克萨斯州和路易斯安那州。他说，阿巴拉契亚乙烷储存中心将补充而不是与墨西哥湾沿岸生产商竞争。
佩里说：“如果阿巴拉契亚地区是它自己的国家，那么它将成为世界第三大天然气生产国。潜在的原材料就在那里，而且它们有特别湿的可分离的具有附加值的天然气液体。在马塞勒斯和尤蒂卡远景区建立一个阿帕拉契盆地乙烷储存和分销中心可能会在供应多样性方面给更广泛的石化和塑料行业带来好处。”
李峻 编译自 普氏能源资讯
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Perry, US DOE lend support to creation of petrochemical complex in Appalachia
The US Department of Energy projects Appalachian Basin ethane production will surge to 640,000 b/d by 2025, more than 20 times 2013 levels, leading Energy Secretary Rick Perry to push for a petrochemical storage hub in the region.
A 91-page report to Congress, which DOE published Tuesday, highlights the potential for the development of an ethane storage hub in the region to take advantage of the low-cost natural gas and natural gas liquids produced from the Marcellus and Utica shales.
In comments made to the National Petroleum Council in Washington, Perry said the US needs to diversify its petrochemical infrastructure beyond Texas and Louisiana. He said an Appalachian ethane storage hub would complement, not compete with, Gulf Coast producers.
"If the Appalachian region were its own country, it would be the third-largest gas producer in the world," Perry said. "The potential raw product is there, and they have particularly wet NGLs that can be separated, value added." The establishment of an Appalachian Basin ethane storage and distribution hub in the heart of the Marcellus and Utica plays "could provide benefits to the broader petrochemical and plastics industries along the lines of supply diversity," the report says.
