据油价网2021年8月20日报道，圭亚那、苏里南和加纳这些石油生产国的新成员，并没有计划让他们新发现的石油财富白白浪费而加入全球的脱碳行动。
路透社援引本周在休斯敦举行的海上技术会议（OTC）上上述3国政府官员的声明报道说，他们计划在这些油田变得毫无价值之前尽可能地进行开采。
近几年来，在南美洲两个邻国圭亚那-苏里南盆地以及加纳近海发现了数十亿桶原油。
加纳能源部长Matthew Opoku Prempeh在会议上说：“非洲有数百万人没有电。”“能源转型并不意味着我们的资源将不被开发。”
加纳可能拥有约50亿桶未开发的石油。 这个国家非常渴望开发这些石油储量，8月早些时候加纳寻求议会批准借款16.5亿美元以开发石油和天然气区块。 今年早些时候，埃克森美孚公司在该地区的地震测量后退出了一个深水项目，因此，这笔贷款显得非常必要。
圭亚那副总统巴拉特·贾格迪奥说：“我们被要求把石油留在地下。 我们认为这是完全不公平的。作为一个小国，我们目前没有能力和框架来优化石油行业的运行，但我们将继续改善。”
贾格迪奥还指出，圭亚那四分之三的地区都被森林覆盖，森林起到了碳汇的作用，可以抵消石油和天然气生产产生的排放。 这个小国在埃克森美孚公司和赫斯公司运营的斯塔布鲁克区块的石油日产量已经超过10万桶。
苏里南国家石油公司的一名高级官员表示：“我们必须了解石油和天然气行业最终将提供什么。”“我们需要这些钱来投资这些绿色产业，”帕特里克·布鲁宁补充说。
李峻 编译自 油价网
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The World’s Newest Oil Countries Are Racing To Exploit Reserves
The new kids align="justify"> They plan to exploit them as best as they can before they become worthless, Reuters has reported, citing statements by government officials made at this week's Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.
Billions of barrels of crude oil have been discovered in the Guyana-Suriname Basin offshore the two South American neighbors as well as in Ghana in recent years.
"We have millions of people without electricity in Africa," Ghana's Energy Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh said at the event. "Energy transition does not mean we'll see our resources unexploited."
Ghana may be home to some 5 billion untapped barrels of oil. The country is so eager to tap these reserves, it earlier this month sought parliamentary approval to borrow $1.65 billion in order to develop oil and gas blocks. The loan became necessary after Exxon pulled out of a deepwater project earlier this year following seismic surveys of the area.
"We have been called to leave our oil in the ground. We believe that's totally unfair," said Guyana vice president Bharrat Jagdeo. "Being a small country, we will not have the capacity and the framework for an optimum operation of the oil industry right now, but we will continue improving."
Jagdeo also noted that three-quarters of Guyana were covered with forests, which acted as carbon sinks and would offset emissions from oil and gas production. The tiny country is already producing more than 100,000 bpd of oil from the Stabroek Block operated by Exxon and Hess.
"We have to get a feel of what the oil and gas industry at the end of the day will deliver," said a senior official from Surinamese state oil firm Staatsolie. "We will need that money to invest in these green industries," Patrick Brunings added.
