石油设备网讯 据路透社报道，本周三，加州能源公司桑普拉首席执行官杰夫·马丁（Jeff Martin）告诉路透社，该公司正积极努力成为北美最大的液化天然气（LNG）出口企业之一。
桑普拉能源正在开发五个项目：路易斯安那州的卡梅伦LNG项目第一阶段和第二阶段、德克萨斯州的阿瑟港、墨西哥下加利福尼亚的科斯塔阿祖尔第一阶段和第二阶段，总计年产能约4500万吨，即每天60亿立方英尺的天然气，而10亿立方英尺的天然气足够每天为500万户美国家庭提供燃料。
如果桑普拉的项目发挥4500万吨的年产能，该公司可能成为仅次于目前市场领导者切尼尔能源公司，成为北美第二大LNG出口企业，与此同时，切尼尔也正在扩建其位于美国的两个运营中的LNG出口终端。
马丁表示：“我们将在未来三到五年积极推进这五个项。”他指出，随着消费者从污染较严重的煤炭转向清洁的天然气，对这种超冷却燃料的需求预计将会飙升。
在价值100亿美元的卡梅伦项目中，年产能为1200万吨的第一阶段已经在建设中。
马丁说，桑普拉预计在第二季度完成卡梅伦的首条液化生产线，第四季度完成2号生产线，2020年第一季度完成3号生产线。该公司指出，这些生产线将在商业运作之前开始生产液化天然气。
马丁表示，桑普拉以及其在卡梅伦的合作伙伴——三菱公司、三井公司和道达尔正在为该设施年产能为800万吨的第二阶段扩建进行研究。
马丁表示，在年产能为1200万吨液化天然气的阿瑟港，桑普拉有一个“巨大的营销努力，看看我们是否能获得足够的合同，在2020年第一季度达成最终投资决定”，这将使项目能够获得融资，并进入建设。
桑普拉已经与波兰PGNiG公司签订了一份合同，从阿瑟港向PGNiG每年出售200万吨的液化天然气。
在墨西哥，桑普拉希望在其科斯塔阿祖尔LNG进口设施中分两个阶段建造一个出口终端。
马丁说：“科斯塔阿祖尔项目是一个彻底的游戏改变者（意指会改变该行业）。”，他指出这是北美西海岸的唯一设施，一个能够让客户将二叠纪页岩气从西德克萨斯运往墨西哥北部地区，并在12天内到达亚洲市场的设施。
马丁称：“该时间是从美国墨西哥湾运送液化天然气所需时间的一半。”而目前其他数十个拟议中的液化天然气项目大多位于美国墨西哥湾沿岸。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
Sempra wants to become one of North America's biggest LNG exporters
Sempra Energy is working aggressively to become one of the biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporters in North America, the California energy company’s Chief Executive Jeff Martin told Reuters on Wednesday.
Sempra is developing five projects - Cameron phases 1 and 2 in Louisiana, Port Arthur in Texas and Costa Azul phases 1 and 2 in Baja California in Mexico - totaling about 45 million tonnes per annum (MTPA), or roughly 6 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas.
One billion cubic feet of gas is enough to supply about 5 million U.S. homes.
If Sempra builds all 45 MTPA of capacity, it could become the second biggest North American LNG exporter behind current market leader Cheniere Energy Inc, which is expanding its two operating LNG export terminals in the United States.
“We are going to move aggressively to unlock these five projects over the next three to five years,” Martin said, noting demand for the super-cooled fuel was expected to rocket higher as consumers transition from dirty coal to cleaner natural gas.
The first 12-MTPA phase at the $10 billion Cameron project is already under construction.
Martin said Sempra expects to complete the first liquefaction train at Cameron in the second quarter, Train 2 in the fourth quarter and Train 3 in the first quarter of 2020. The company noted the trains will start producing LNG before they are commercially complete.
Martin said Sempra and its partners at Cameron - Mitsubishi Corp, Mitsui & Co Ltd and Total SA - are working on a study for the 8-MTPA phase 2 expansion of the facility.
At the 12-MTPA Port Arthur, Martin said Sempra has a “big marketing effort to see if we can get sufficient contracts to reach a final investment decision by the first quarter of 2020” that will enable to project to get financing to go to construction.
Sempra already has a contract to sell 2 MTPA of LNG from Port Arthur to Polish oil and gas company Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA (PGNiG).
In Mexico, Sempra wants to build an export terminal in two phases at its Costa Azul LNG import facility.
“Costa Azul is a complete game changer,” Martin said, noting it is the only facility on the West Coast of North America that will enable customers to ship Permian shale gas from West Texas across northern Mexico and reach markets in Asia in 12 days.
“That is half the transit time it takes to send LNG from the U.S. Gulf Coast,” Martin said. Most of the dozens of other proposed LNG projects are located along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
