石油圈中国石化新闻网讯 据美国彭博新闻社12月21日伦敦/迪拜/利雅得报道，沙特阿拉伯能源大臣兼沙特阿拉伯国家石油公司（沙特阿美）董事长哈立德·法利赫日前在利雅得接受媒体记者采访时说，由于沙特阿拉伯王国寻找能够满足国内不断增长需求的方法，沙特阿美时下正在从俄罗斯到东非和美国寻找天然气供应资产。
法利赫的此番评论默认了沙特阿美尽管经过多年勘探仍未能找到足够的国内天然气储量。法利赫现在正在考虑进口这种超冷的液体天然气来缩小与当地消费的差距并削减用于发电的原油数量用于出口获取更多利润。
沙特啊拉每年把数千万桶原油转向本国发电厂，尤其是在夏天空调使用高峰季节。沙特阿拉伯未能生产足够的天然气来供应发电厂，其生产的大部分天然气用于本国快速增长的石化工业。
李峻 编译自 美国彭博新闻社
原文如下：
Saudi Aramco embarks on global hunt for natural gas supplies
Saudi Aramco is looking for natural gas assets from Russia to East Africa and the U.S. as the kingdom’s state-owned energy giant hunts for ways to meet soaring domestic demand.
The comments by Khalid Al-Falih, who’s both Aramco chairman and Saudi energy minister, are a tacit admission Aramco has failed to find enough domestic gas reserves despite years of exploration. He’s now considering imports of super-cooled liquefied natural gas to bridge the gap with local consumption and cut the amount of crude oil burned in power stations instead of exported for profit.
“Aramco is drawing a very wide net,” said Al-Falih, mentioning the Mediterranean and the Caspian Sea as other potential targets for gas assets.
Saudi Arabia diverts tens of millions of bbl of crude every year into its electricity generation plants, particularly during the peak air-conditioning season in the summer. It doesn’t produce enough gas to supply its power stations. Most the gas it does pump goes to its fast-growing petrochemicals industry.
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