中国石化新闻网讯 据油价网海牙报道，尽管欧洲的天然气供应状况岌岌可危，但荷兰政府计划今年关闭格罗宁根大气田。格罗宁根大气田是欧洲最大的天然气田。
一位来自海牙的荷兰政府官员告诉英国《金融时报》记者，格罗宁根大气田继续天然气生产面临很大危险，荷兰政府没有提高天然气产量的计划。
这位官员向英国《金融时报》记者表示，“出于安全问题，我们不会进一步开采更多天然气，因为这意味着会增加地震的几率，我不想为此负责。”
格罗宁根大气田的天然气产量已大幅减少，甚至在2021年能源危机开始之前，格罗宁根大气田附近的地震活动就已增加，因此荷兰政府已经计划逐步停止这个大气田的天然气生产。
由于天然气价格在2021年秋季开始攀升，然后在2022年春季开始飙升，一些人开始猜测，荷兰政府可能会继续运营格罗宁根大气田，以填补管道输送留下的天然气供应缺口。
荷兰政府从一开始就对此持怀疑态度，转而建议扩展天然气产量，不过至少要扩展28亿立方米产量。现在，这个问题也在重新考虑之中。
他告诉英国《金融时报》记者：“这非常非常简单：每个对地震危险有所了解的人都告诉我，继续在那里生产天然气真的非常危险。我非常确信关闭它是明智的。”
英国《金融时报》指出，自上世纪80年代以来，格罗宁根地区每年发生大约100次地震，导致逾15万起财产损失索赔。格罗宁根大气田的运营商是壳牌公司和埃克森美孚公司的合资企业，后者被要求从2013年开始减少天然气产量，以期最终关闭格罗宁根大气田。
李峻 编译自 油价网
原文如下：
Netherlands To Shut Down Europe's Largest Gas Field
The Dutch government plans to close the Groningen gas field this year despite Europe’s precarious supply position. Groningen is the largest gas field in Europe.
The field is dangerous, a government official from the Hague told the Financial Times, and the government has no plans to boost production from it.
“We won’t open up more because of the safety issues,” Hans Vijbrief told the FT. “It is politically totally unviable. But apart from that, I’m not going to do it because it means that you increase the chances of earthquakes, which I don’t want to be responsible for.”
Production from Groningen has been curtailed substantially, and there were plans in place to phase out production altogether because of increased seismic activity in the vicinity of the field even before the energy crisis began in 2021.
As gas prices began to climb in the autumn of 2021 and then took off in the spring of 2022, some began speculating that the Netherlands could keep the field operating to contribute to filling the gap in gas supply left by the third producer’s pipeline deliveries.
The Dutch government was skeptical about that from the start and instead suggested production be extended, although at a minimum rate of some 2.8 billion cu m. Now, this, too, is being reconsidered.
“It’s very, very simple: everybody who has some knowledge of earthquake danger tells me that it’s really very dangerous to keep>Since the 1980s, the FT notes, there have been some 100 earthquakes annually around Groningen, resulting in more than 150,000 claims for property damage. The operator of the field, a Shell-Exxon joint venture, was ordered to start reducing output in 2013 with a view to shutting the field down eventually.
