据路透社报道，阿根廷总统办公室周二宣布，阿根廷国家石油公司YPF和马来西亚国家石油公司Petronas将组建一家合资企业，在未来4年内投资23亿美元在该国的Vaca Muerta页岩油田。
阿根廷总统在一份声明中表示，Petronas将通过其子公司Petronas E&P Argentina SA在该项目中拥有同等权益。Petronas还没有对这一声明发表评论。
位于阿根廷西部的比利时规模的Vaca Muerta矿床被认为拥有世界第二大页岩气和第四大页岩油矿床。
声明称：“这项投资将使我们能够在2022年之前将YPF的汽油产量提高30%，这意味着阿根廷的汽油总产量将增加15%。”
该公司表示，公司的目标是到2022年达到每天6万桶石油当量，在20年内，投资总额可能达到70亿美元。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
Argentina announces $2.3 billion joint shale oil project with Malaysia's Petronas
Argentina’s state-controlled energy company YPF and Malaysia’s Petronas [PETR.UL] are forming a joint venture to invest $2.3 billion over the next four years in the country’s Vaca Muerta shale oil fields, the president’s office announced State-owned Petronas will have an equal stake in the project through its subsidiary Petronas E&P Argentina SA, the presidency said in a statement. Petronas has not yet commented The Belgium-sized Vaca Muerta deposit, located in western Argentina, is regarded as having the world’s second-largest shale gas and fourth-largest shale oil deposits.
“This investment will allow us to increase YPF’s petrol production by 30 percent by 2022, which will represent a total increase for Argentina of 15 percent,” the statement said.
The companies’ objective is to reach a production equivalent of 60,000 barrels a day by 2022, it said. Total investment could reach $7 billion within 20 years, it said.
