石油圈中国石化新闻网讯 据今日油价网站2月20日消息 沙特阿拉伯能源部长Khalid al-Falih（法利赫）周三表示，沙特阿拉伯预计今年将与科威特达成协议，从所谓的中立区的联合油田恢复石油生产。 路透社在会见科威特Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah一天后援引法利赫的话说：“我们希望在2019年解决这一问题。” 1922年，沙特阿拉伯和科威特为解决两国领土争端而建立了所谓的“分割中立区”。据EIA称，截至2015年，中立区的石油生产能力为60万桶/日，科威特和沙特阿拉伯将其石油产量平均分配。2014-2015年，Khafji和Wafra两个油田关闭前，该地区的平均产量约为50万桶/日。 截至2018年10月，业务分歧和地缘政治分歧仍然阻碍沙特阿拉伯和科威特在关于联合经营油田可能重启的谈判，因此并没有取得任何进展，分析人士则希望该油田很快能在中东增加50万桶/日的石油产量。 在此之前的几周，在2018年9月底，沙特阿拉伯王储Mohammed bin Salman在与科威特Emir的会谈中讨论了在中立区重新开始原油生产的问题。然而，沙特王储对科威特的访问被缩短，双方之间的分歧仍然很大。 2018年12月，《华尔街日报》报道，沙特阿拉伯和科威特正准备在中立区重新开始石油生产。 在美国介入后，两国达成了一项协议。《华尔街日报》两个月前援引知悉谈判的石油官员的话称，今年第一季度的石油生产可能会重新开始。据《华尔街日报》报道，随着美国考虑逐步取消对伊朗主要石油买家的豁免，这些油田的恢复生产以及中东地区50万桶/日的潜在新增产能可能会缓解对供应紧张的担忧。 王磊 摘译自 今日油价 原文如下： Source: Al-Falih Sees Saudi-Kuwait Deal To Resume Neutral Zone Oil Output This Year Saudi Arabia expects that it can reach a deal with Kuwait to resume oil production from joint oil fields in the so-called Neutral Zone this year, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Wednesday. “We hope in 2019 it will be resolved,” Reuters quoted al-Falih as saying a day after meeting with the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. The so-called Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) was established between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in 1922 to settle a territorial dispute between the two countries. As of 2015, the oil production capacity in the neutral zone stood at 600,000 bpd, equally divided between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, according to the EIA. Production from the zone averaged around 500,000 bpd just before the shutdown of the two oil fields, Khafji and Wafra, in 2014-2015. As of October 2018, operational divergences and geopolitical divisions were still preventing Saudi Arabia and Kuwait from making any progress in talks about the potential restart of the jointly operated oil fields that analysts were hoping could soon add 500,000 bpd of oil production in the Middle East. A few weeks before that, at the end of September 2018, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed the restart of crude oil production in the neutral zone during a meeting with Kuwait’s Emir. The Saudi Crown Prince’s visit to Kuwait, however, was cut short, while big divergences between the two sides remained. In December 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were inching closer to restarting oil production in the Neutral Zone after the United States had intervened to broker a deal between the two countries. Production could restart in the first quarter this year, the Journal reported two months ago, citing oil officials familiar with the negotiations. The resumption of production from those fields and the potential adding of 500,000 bpd production capacity in the Middle East could alleviate concerns about tightening supply as the U.S. mulls over phasing out the waivers it had granted to key Iranian oil buyers, according to The Journal.
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