中国石化新闻网讯 据道琼斯利雅得1月22日消息，美国能源情报署(EIA)负责人表示，美国液态燃料产量可能最早在明年赶上或超过沙特，但原油产量仍将不及沙特。
EIA管理人Adam Sieminski在利雅得接受道琼斯通讯社采访时称，明年年底前美国的原油日均产量将达到800万桶，为1988年以来的最高年均水平，这主要归功于页岩油大开采。
他表示，这可能仍比不上沙特的原油产量，但在其他液态燃料方面，美国可能成为第一。
Sieminski称，美国天然气凝析液的日产量约250万桶，另外生物燃料和加工处理所得的液态燃料的日均产量为200万桶。沙特原油日均产量在1,000万桶左右，天然气凝液日产量为150万桶。
他表示：“如果美国原油产量达到800万桶/天，而其它液体燃料的产量维持在当前的水平，那么我们液态燃料的总产量将赶上沙特当前的水平。不过沙特或通过提升剩余产能或扩大基础设施来增加自己的产量水平。”
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EIA: US Could Be World's Biggest Liquid Fuel Producer By 2014
By Summer Said
RIYADH-Total U.S. production of liquid fuels could equal or surpass Saudi Arabia as early as next year, but crude oil production will remain short of that in the Middle Eastern energy giant, said the chief of the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
U.S. crude oil production will hit an average of 8 million barrels a day by the end of next year, the highest annual-average level of production since 1988 thanks to the boom in shale oil, the EIA's administrator, Adam Sieminski, told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
This is likely to remain short of crude oil production in Saudi Arabia, but adding in other liquid fuels, the U.S. could gain the top spot, he said.
The U.S. also produces around 2.5 million barrels a day of natural gas liquids, while biofuels and volumes gains through refinery processing add another 2 million barrels a day he said. Saudi Arabia has around 10 million barrels per day of crude production and 1.5 million barrels day of natural gas liquids, Mr. Sieminski said.
"If the U.S. gets up to 8 million barrels a day of crude oil, and these other numbers stay in the same range;that would make us equal to the current numbers in Saudi Arabia," he said.
However, the kingdom could also boost its own production by ramping up spare capacity or expanding infrastructure, he said.
