Qatar LNG expansion ‘full-steam ahead’ for 2024 start: Al-Kaabi
卡塔爾液化天然氣擴建“全速前進”，2024年投用
Singapore — Qatar is strongly committed to the expansion of LNG capacity to 110 million mt by 2024, with construction and tendering plans confirmed for the project and the associated shipping fleet, according to Saad Al-Kaabi, the country’s minister of state for energy affairs.
新加坡-卡塔爾能源事務部部長Saad al-Kaabi表示，卡塔爾承諾到2024年將液化天然氣産能擴大至1.1億公噸，並確認了該項目及其相關船隊的建設和招標計劃。
The construction, engineering and design contracts for the facility have been awarded to companies including McDermott, Consolidated Contractors Company and Chiyoda Corporation, Al-Kaabi, who is also the chief executive officer of Qatar Petroleum, said at the LNG2019 conference in Shanghai on Tuesday.
卡塔爾石油公司（Qatar Petroleum）首席執行官卡比（Al Kaabi）周二在上海舉行的LNG2019會議上表示，該設施的施工、工程和設計合同已授予包括McDermott、AI-KAABI和千代田公司組成的聯合體。
“The project is going full-steam ahead for a planned start-up in 2024,” Al-Kaabi said.
Al-Kaabi說：“該項目將全力確保2024年的投用。”
A tender will also be issued to shipbuilders for the construction of new ships for the expansion of the fleet, he added.
他還說，還將向造船商發出一份建造新船以擴大船隊的投標書。
Qatar’s energy minister said in February that the country is studying the addition of 60 new LNG tankers to meet the requirements of the Qatar’s LNG expansion, and Qatar Petroleum’s Golden Pass LNG plant in Texas.
卡塔爾能源部長2月份表示，該國正在研究增加60艘新的液化天然氣輪船，以滿足卡塔爾液化天然氣擴張的要求，以及卡塔爾石油公司位于德克薩斯州的金關液化天然氣工廠。
But Al-Kaabi did not mention any firm date to the project’s Final Investment Decision or inclusion of new partners for the expansion.
但是，Al-Kaabi沒有提到項目最終投資決策的日期，也沒有提到爲擴建項目引入新的合作夥伴。
Al-Kaabi was also bullish on global demand growth, driven largely by emerging economies China and India. Japan and South Korea will continue to grow moderately, while Europe could experience a rise of demand after years of stagnation, he said.
Kaabi也看好全球天然氣需求增長，主要受新興經濟體中國和印度推動。他說，日本和韓國將繼續適度增長，而歐洲可能在多年的停滯後經曆需求增長。
Qatar LNG’s plans to reach 110 million mt/year of production, from 78 million mt/year, follow the lifting of a 12-year moratorium on the development of its offshore North Field in 2017.
卡塔爾液化天然氣公司計劃從7800萬噸/年達到1.1億噸/年的産量，並在2017年取消了爲期12年的海上北部油田開發禁令。
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