石油圈中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社12月10日新德里报道，印度最大的天然气进口商Petronet LNG正在考虑在一年内签署一项协议，每年至少购买100万吨美国天然气，为期10年。与此同时，它也在努力实现中东以外的供应来源多样化。 Petronet董事总经理Prabhat Singh表示，作为任何交易的一部分，该公司都有可能入股美国LNG项目。 Singh上周晚些时候告诉路透社：“与其他市场相比, 美国市场是开放的, 在那些市场中, 国家 (往往) 是矿产的控制者。” 他说：“美国提供了很多机会，我们愿意适当地探索这一点，并进行一次冒险。” Petronet目前运营一个每年1500万吨LNG再气化工厂，该工厂位于印度西部古吉拉特邦的达赫伊，以及印度南部科奇一个500万吨LNG再气化工厂。 该公司有每年购买1000万吨LNG的长期交易，其中850万吨来自卡塔尔的RasGas。 Singh表示，Petronet正在与包括泰利安公司在内的多家公司就一项美国潜在的交易进行谈判。 Singh在11月曾表示，Petronet和印度油气公司海外子公司正在联合谈判，以购买泰利安在路易斯安那州提议的Driftwood项目股份。 他上周表示：“如果定价正确，那么印度对巨额成交量有信心。” 天然气约占印度总能源需求的6.5%，远低于全球平均水平。政府希望在未来几年内将这一比例提高到15%。 Singh称：“美国市场非常发达，小众服务提供商的预算非常低，这意味着管理费用减少。” 随着页岩油田的快速发展，美国天然气的过剩使得美国液化天然气的基准价格几乎只有亚洲的一半。 与此同时，Singh还表示，Petronet还在与卡塔尔的勘探和液化天然气项目谈判，并继续在孟加拉国和斯里兰卡寻找机会。 詹晓晶摘自路透社 原文如下： India’s Petronet looking for long-term deal to buy U.S. LNG Top Indian gas importer Petronet LNG is looking to sign a deal in a year’s time to buy at least 1 million tonnes of U.S. natural gas annually for a period of up to 10 years, as it pushes to diversify its supply sources beyond the Middle East. As part of any deal, the firm could potentially take a stake in a U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, said Petronet’s managing director, Prabhat Singh. “The U.S. market is open compared to other markets where the state is (often) the controller of minerals,” Singh told Reuters late last week. “The U.S. offers lots of opportunities and we would like to explore that properly and make a venture (there),” he said. Petronet currently runs a 15 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification site at Dahej in the western state of Gujarat and a 5 mtpa plant at Kochi in southern India. It has long-term deals to buy 10 mtpa of LNG, with 8.5 mtpa of that coming from Qatar’s RasGas. Singh said Petronet was in talks with various companies including Tellurian Inc about a potential U.S. deal. Singh had said in November that Petronet and ONGC Videsh were jointly in talks to buy a stake in Tellurian’s proposed Driftwood project in Louisiana. “If the pricing is right then India has appetite for huge volumes,” he said last week. Natural gas accounts for about 6.5 percent of India’s overall energy needs, far lower than the global average. The government wants to lift that to 15 percent in the next few years. “The U.S. market is so developed that niche service providers are available on a shoestring budget, which means less overheads,” Singh said. A glut of natural gas in the United States in the wake of the rapid development of shale fields there has kept benchmark U.S. prices for LNG at almost half Asian levels. Meanwhile, Singh said Petronet was also in talks to invest in exploration and LNG projects in Qatar, as well as continuing to scout for opportunities in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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