据化工网1月6日消息：阿根廷能源部长马丁内斯表示，阿根廷计划将对巴西的天然气出口提高至每天2000万立方米。
此举被视为推动Vaca Muerta页岩油气产量增长的关键。马丁内斯在一份声明中补充说，出口重点将集中到南部的巴拉那州，圣卡塔琳娜州和南里奥格兰德州。
世界最大的页岩气田之一Vaca Muerta天然气生产商一直在游说增加出口的机会，称这是开发巨大资源的唯一途径。阿根廷平均每天消耗1.4亿立方米，目前主要由当地1.25亿立方米的产量和通过管道从玻利维亚进口的液化天然气以及布宜诺斯艾利斯附近的浮动再气化终端满足。
虽然一些公司正在计划建造一个液化终端，向全球市场(尤其是亚洲)出口液化天然气。但与此同时，他们希望增加对巴西、智利和乌拉圭现有管道的销售。
根据能源秘书处的最新数据，从2020年1月至10月，阿根廷平均出口410万立方米/天，低于2019年全年的510万立方米/天。数据显示，去年同期，出口到巴西的天然气只有25万立方米/天，出口到智利的天然气为340万立方米/天。
bp支持的泛美能源公司负责天然气和能源的副总裁鲁道夫•弗雷尔上个月在美洲研究所的一次研讨会上表示，尽管对巴西的天然气销售较低，但仍有增长潜力。巴西进口的大部分天然气都是从玻利维亚进口的，而玻利维亚的天然气产量正在下降，这意味着阿根廷可以利用这一点增加对拉丁美洲最大经济体的销售。
根据油气部的数据，玻利维亚10月份的天然气产量从去年同期的5789万立方米/天降至4884万立方米/天。其中，玻利维亚与阿根廷和巴西签订了长期出口合同，这两个国家在开发本国资源的过程中一直在减少购买。
冯娟 摘译自 化工网
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Argentina eyes ramping up gas exports to Brazil to fuel production growth
Buenos Aires—Argentina plans to boost natural gas exports to Brazil by up to 20 million cubic meters/day, Energy Secretary Daniel Martinez said late Jan. 4.
The move is seen as key for fueling production growth from the giant Vaca Muerta shale play."Argentinian producers are going to analyze the Brazilian market and see about the possibility of exporting between 10 [million] and 20 million cubic meters per day" to that market, Martinez said after a meeting with Daniel Scioli, the Argentinian ambassador to Brazil.
The focus of the exports will be to the southern states of Paraná, Santa Catalina and Rio Grande do Sul, he added in a statement.
The next step is to invite producers "to analyze the possibility," Martinez said.
Gas producers in Vaca Muerta, Any growth in the country's total gas production—it reached a most recent record of 144.4 million cu m/d in July 2020—means that new outlets will have to be found for sales.
While some companies are working Argentina exported an average of 4.1 million cu m/d from January through October 2020, down from 5.1 million cu m/d in all of 2019, according to the latest data from the Energy Secretariat. Of the exports, Despite low sales to Brazil, there is the potential for growth, Rodolfo Freyre, vice president of gas and energy at BP-backed Pan American Energy, said last month at an Institute of the Americas seminar. He said that Brazil gets most of its imported gas from Bolivia, where production is in decline, meaning that Argentina can take advantage of that to increase sales to Latin America's biggest economy.
Bolivia's gas production fell to an average 48.84 million cu m/d in October from 57.89 million cu m/d a year earlier, according to data from the Ministry of Hydrocarbons. Of that, Bolivia has long-term contracts to export to Argentina and Brazil, both of which have been reducing purchases as they develop their own resources.
At the same seminar last month, Jose Luis Manzano, chairman of Integra Capital, an investment company with interests in the Argentinian energy sector, said that exporting regionally can allow for production growth from Vaca Muerta while a liquefaction terminal is built for global sales, a project that requires billions of dollars of investment and four to five years of construction.
