石油设备网讯 据路透社3月21日伦敦报道，美国阿纳达科石油公司（Anadarko）星期四表示，该公司将为莫桑比克液化天然气项目租用16艘油轮, 并将为该油轮寻求长期租赁, 以便从莫桑比克的一个拟议项目中运输天然气。
这家独立的美国能源生产商计划在未来几个月内就这个200亿美元的项目做出最终投资决定，并与其液化天然气的长期买家签约。
Anadarko表示, 到目前为止, 在每年1288万吨液化天然气的产能中, 签署的每年950多万吨合同都是在以目的港船上交货价成交（DES）的基础上签订的。
该公司本可以按照船上交货价格（FOB）出售液化天然气，美国许多液化天然气项目也是如此，这就需要买家来组织航运。
Anadarko女发言人Helen Rhymes告诉路透社：“该项目需要大约16艘液化天然气船只来为DES合同提供服务。虽然投标过程的细节是保密的，但项目计划与选定的船东订立长期租约，而不是拥有船只，招标书将在最终投资决定发布后的某个时候发出。”
一旦做出最终投资决定，Anadarko将开始建设陆上终端，已经有数千名工人在现场为这些设施清理场地。
Anadarko的项目是世界上规模最大的项目之一，与埃克森美孚在莫桑比克北部同一个偏远地区的液化天然气项目并驾齐驱。这两个项目都在贝拉（上周飓风造成破坏的中心城镇）以北1000公里（600英里）处。
这两个项目都将从Rovuma盆地近海开采天然气，在那里发现的天然气数量达到了欧洲十年的天然气消费量。
Anadarko与日本公用事业东京天然气和日本东北电力、欧洲公用事业Centrica和法国电力公司EDF、印度巴拉特石油、中国海油、印尼国家石油公司和荷兰皇家壳牌达成了液化天然气供应协议。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
Anadarko to seek to charter 16 tankers for Mozambique LNG project
Anadarko said on Thursday it would seek long-term charters for around 16 liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers it would need to ship gas from a proposed project in Mozambique.
The independent U.S. energy producer aims to take a final investment decision on the $20 billion project in the coming months, having signed up long-term buyers for its LNG.
Anadarko said all the contracts signed so far, for over 9.5 million tonnes a year (mtpa) out of a capacity of 12.88 mtpa, were on a delivered ex-ship (DES) basis.
The company could have sold the LNG on a free on board (FOB) basis, as do many U.S. LNG projects, which leaves the buyers to organise the shipping.
“The project needs approximately 16 LNG vessels to service the DES contracts,” Helen Rhymes, an Anadarko spokeswoman, told Reuters.
“While the specifics of the tendering process are confidential, the project plans to enter into long-term time charters with selected ship owners rather than own the vessels. An invitation to tender will be issued sometime after FID (final investment decision).”
Anadarko will start work on the construction of the onshore terminal once it takes the final investment decision. Already several thousand workers are onsite clearing the ground for the facilities.
Anadarko’s project is one of the largest planned in the world, alongside Exxon Mobil Corp’s LNG project in the same remote northern region of Mozambique. Both are 1,000 km (600 miles) north of Beira, the town at the centre of the devastation from a cyclone last week.
Both projects will take gas from the Rovuma basin offshore, where gas has been found in such quantities that it amounts to a decade’s worth of European gas consumption.
Anadarko has LNG supply deals with Japanese utilities Tokyo Gas and Tohoku Electric, European utilities Centrica and EDF, India’s Bharat Petroleum , China’s CNOOC, Indonesia’s Pertamina and Royal Dutch Shell.
