石油设备网讯 据Oil & Gas Journal网站3月21日墨尔本报道 据巴布亚新几内亚总理彼得·奥尼尔称，该国将于4月5日签署在巴布亚新几内亚东部高地130亿美元由道达尔巴布亚经营的巴布亚液化天然气项目（Elk-Antelope）的天然气协议。
奥尼尔于3月19日在摩尔斯比港向巴布亚新几内亚石油能源峰会发表开幕词时宣布了这一决定。
奥尼尔称，协议将列出项目的好处以及利益相关者的回报。这也将触发开发项目的前端工程和设计阶段的开始，该阶段将为两条液化天然气生产线提供天然气，这两条液化天然气生产线将建在现有的两条生产线旁边，即埃克森美孚运营的巴新液化天然气项目（PNG-LNG），位于摩尔斯比港附近的Caution Bay。
奥尼尔表示，该协议将为该项目的本地内容规定一个有意义的机会，同时规定了国内市场义务，即将一些Elk-Antelope项目的天然气用于国内用途，特别是发电，并由国有的Kumul Petroleum公司进行销售。
该协议还将为第三方将来使用该项目的管道做准备，这是一项旨在改善较小、更偏远的天然气发现（如该国西部省份的天然气发现）的商业前景的措施。
巴布亚液化天然气项目的两条新生产线的生产能力均为270万吨/年。
Kumul Petroleum已表示，其打算收购巴布亚液化天然气22.5%的股份。
奥尼尔还表示，正在就开发埃克森美孚运营的位于西部高地的P’nyang天然气和凝析油气田（作为巴布亚新几内亚液化天然气项目的单列延伸）达成一项天然气协议进行讨论，希望本协议在巴布亚液化天然气项目签订后不久签订。
由于这两个项目将共享为巴布亚新几内亚液化天然气开发所建的基础设施，并将总共三条新的液化天然气生产线运至现场，因此计划将巴布亚液化天然气项目与新液化天然气项目紧密结合。
奥尼尔告诉代表们，他的政府致力于为石油行业提供稳定。他说，巴布亚液化天然气和P’nyang项目的快速发展符合国家和开发商的利益。他补充说，这两个项目的开发是为了利用20世纪20年代中期全球液化天然气供应的预测缺口。
吴恒磊 编译自 Oil & Gas Journal
原文如下：
Total-led Papua LNG project gas agreement timed for April
The natural gas agreement for the $13-billion Total SA-operated Papua LNG (Elk-Antelope) project in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea is likely to be signed on Apr. 5, according to the country’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.
O’Neill made the announcement when giving the opening address to the Papua New Guinea Petroleum & Energy Summit Mar. 19 in Port Moresby.
O’Neill told delegates that the agreement will set out the benefits of the project and the returns to stakeholders. It also will trigger the beginning of the front-end engineering and design phase of the development that will supply gas to two LNG trains to be built next to the existing two-train, ExxonMobil Corp.-operated PNG-LNG project at Caution Bay near Port Moresby.
O’Neill said the agreement would stipulate a meaningful opportunity for local content in the project as well as a domestic market obligation that will mandate the use of some of the Elk-Antelope gas for domestic purposes, particularly electric power generation, to be marketed by state-owned Kumul Petroleum.
The agreement also will make provision for the future use of the project’s pipeline by third parties, a measure designed to improve the commercial prospects of smaller, more remote gas finds such as those in the country’s western province.
Each of the two new trains for the Papua LNG project will have a production capacity of 2.7 million tonnes/year of LNG.
Kumul Petroleum has already stated its intention to take up its mandated maximum 22.5% share in Papua LNG.
O’Neill also said discussions were taking place towards a gas agreement for the development of the ExxonMobil-operated P’nyang gas and condensate field in the Western Highlands as a single-train extension of the PNG-LNG project. It is hoped that this agreement will be signed soon after the one for Papua LNG.
P’nyang development is planned to be closely aligned with Papua LNG as the two projects will share infrastructure built for the original PNG-LNG development and bring a total of three new LNG trains to the site.
O’Neill told delegates that his government was committed to providing stability to the petroleum sector. He said it was in the interests of both the state and developers for both Papua LNG and P’nyang to progress quickly. He added that the two projects are being developed to take advantage of a predicted gap in global LNG supply in the mid-2020s.
