据彭博新闻社2021年7月13日报道，由于石油资源丰富的波斯湾国家加快努力，逐步摆脱对原油的依赖，转而使用更清洁的能源，科威特近日启用了本国首个进口液化天然气（LNG）的永久性设施。
据科威特国家通讯社Kuna报道，祖尔LNG进口终端7月12日收到了来自卡塔尔的第一批LNG货物。
这个距离科威特与沙特阿拉伯接壤边境约10英里的终端每年计划进口多达2200万吨这种超冷天然气，轻而易举地成为中东同类LNG进口终端中最大的一个。
彭博新能源财经(BloombergNEF)液化天然气分析师Abhishek Rohatgi在一份报告中表示：“由于计划逐步淘汰价值10吉瓦的炼油厂，科威特电力部门的天然气需求将上升。”“天然气需求的增长很可能会超过侏罗纪气田的国内产量增长，从而增加LNG进口量。”
彭博社预计，到2025年前，中东地区的LNG使用量将增加近50%，其中大部分增长将来自科威特。
李峻 编译自 彭博社
原文如下：
Kuwait opens first LNG import facility in push for greener electricity
Kuwait has opened its first permanent facility to import liquefied natural gas, as oil-rich Persian Gulf states accelerate efforts to wean their power plants off crude and use cleaner forms of energy.
The Al Zour LNG terminal received its first cargo of gas, from Qatar, align="justify"> The plant, roughly 10 miles from Kuwait’s border with Saudi Arabia, is designed to import as much as 22 million tons of the super-chilled gas each year, making it easily the largest of its kind in the Middle East.
“Gas demand in Kuwait is set to rise in the power sector due to the planned phase-out of oil plants worth 10 gigawatts,” Abhishek Rohatgi, an LNG analyst at BloombergNEF, said in a note. “Gas-demand growth is likely to outpace domestic production growth from the Jurassic fields, raising LNG imports.”
BloombergNEF expects LNG use in the Middle East to increase almost 50% by 2025, with most of the increase coming from Kuwait.
