石油圈中国石化新闻网讯 据法尔斯通讯社7月4日德黑兰报道，能源大国卡塔尔周二表示，计划在未来数年内将天然气产量提升30%。目前卡塔尔正陷入外交危机，邻国纷纷对其施压。
卡塔尔石油公司负责人萨阿德·卡阿比在一次新闻招待会上表示，卡塔尔计划到2024年将天然气产量提升至1亿万吨/年。
卡阿比对记者称：“这个新项目将巩固卡塔尔的领先地位。在相当长的时间内，我们都将是LNG生产国中的领跑者。”
卡塔尔是全球最大的LNG生产国。 卡塔尔目前天然气产量为7700万吨/年。卡阿比表示，卡塔尔产能水平将借此提升至600万桶油当量/天。
这份声明产生的背景是，沙特阿拉伯及其盟国上月对卡塔尔实施了全面禁运，后者正陷入几年来最严峻的一次外交危机。这不仅是一份经济事务声明，也可看作是一份政治宣言。
周一，卡塔尔已对邻国提出的解除制裁的13项要求作出了回应。
卡阿比表示，卡塔尔希望通过跨国企业组成的合资公司来运营增产项目。
但他也补充称，若卡塔尔因未能满足沙特及其盟国要求而导致后者将制裁的威胁付诸行动，阻止国际企业与卡塔尔合作，卡塔尔也会执行该项目。
他说：“如果没有公司愿意与我们合作，我们会靠自己生产出这1亿吨（天然气）。” 詹乐乾 摘译自FNA
原文如下：
Embattled Qatar Says to Boost Gas Production 30%
Energy-rich Qatar said Tuesday it plans to increase natural gas production by 30 percent over the next several years, as it faces pressure from its neighbors in a diplomatic crisis.
Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the head of Qatar Petroleum, told a press conference that the emirate intends to raise production to 100 million tons of natural gas a year by 2024.
“This new project will strengthen Qatar’s leading position,” Kaabi told reporters.
“We will remain the leader of LNG for a very long time.”
Qatar is the world’s biggest producer of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).
Qatar’s current production is up to 77 million tons per year. The expansion will increase output levels up to the equivalent of six million barrels of oil per day, Kaabi said.
The announcement comes as the region faces its worst diplomatic crisis in years after Saudi Arabia and its allies imposed a sweeping embargo on Qatar last month. Its timing is likely to be seen as as much political as economic.
On Monday, Qatar gave its response to a 13-point list of demands its neighbors made for lifting their sanctions.
Kaabi said Qatar wanted the production increase to be carried out through a joint venture with international companies.
But he added that the emirate would still go ahead with it even if Saudi Arabia and its allies made good on their threat to sanction any international firm working with Qatar if it failed to meet their demands.
“If there are no companies willing to work with us, we will do the 100 million tons,” he said.
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