石油设备网讯 据路透社1月23日圣多美报道，圣多美和普林西比（圣普）国家石油公司23日在圣多美宣布，一个由英国石油公司（BP）和美国科斯莫斯能源公司（科斯莫斯）组成的国际财团日前赢得了位于圣普专属经济区（EEZ）内的两个海上石油区块的勘探权。
圣普国家石油公司经理奥兰多·庞特斯周一晚些时候在一份声明中说，这两家公司在一次受限制招标中赢得了第10号区块和第13号区块。他们打败了另外一个由葡萄牙Galp能源公司和法国道达尔公司组成的国际财团。
圣普是位于非洲几内亚湾的一个小国，这个小国被拥有丰富石油储量的邻国尼日利亚、喀麦隆、赤道几内亚和安哥拉包围。尽管在几年的勘探作业以后没有获得重大发现，但行业认为圣普近海很有可能最终会出产石油。目前一些公司正在进行勘探作业。圣普的12.9万平方公里的EEZ被划分成19个区块。
目前活跃在西非和中非其它部分的总部设在纽约的科斯莫斯能源公司在2015年和2016年获得了圣普海上第5号区块、第6号区块和第12号区块。圣普国家石油公司预计这家美国公司将在2019年根据地震结果开始钻井作业。
李峻 编译自 路透社
原位如下：
BP, Kosmos Win Rights To Two Oil Blocks In Sao Tome And Principe
A consortium of BP and Kosmos Energy has won exploration rights to two offshore oil blocks in Sao Tome and Principe's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the national oil agency said.
The two companies won blocks 10 and 13 in a restricted tender, the agency's director Orlando Pontes said in a statement late on Monday. They beat a second consortium of Portugal's Galp Energia and Total, he said.
Sao Tome and Principe, a tiny island nation in Africa's Gulf of Guinea, is surrounded by oil-rich neighbours Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Angola.
Despite a lack of significant discoveries after several years of prospecting, the industry sees its waters as likely to yield oil eventually, and several firms are currently exploring.
Its 129,000-square km EEZ is divided into 19 blocks.
New York-listed Kosmos Energy, which is active in other parts of West and Central Africa, acquired licenses to blocks 5, 6, 11 and 12 in 2015 and 2016. The national oil agency said it expected the firm to begin drilling in 2019 based on seismic results.
