石油设备网讯 据世界石油网站3月31日华盛顿报道 美国石油学会（API）发表声明，支持特朗普总统为Keystone XL (KXL)项目颁发新的总统许可证。这一行动重申了这一关键项目对美国消费者和能源安全的国家重要性，并将有助于推动该项目在经过10多年的广泛环境审查后顺利推进。
API总裁兼首席执行官Mike Sommers说：“我们赞赏政府采取了一种言简意赅的方式来允许这一关键基础设施项目。Keystone XL管道已经通过了奥巴马和特朗普政府在过去十年中进行的每一次环境审查。每项研究都得出相同结论，它可以被安全建造，而且不会对环境造成重大影响。”
KXL输油管道将创造数千个高薪工作岗位，为国家经济增加数百万美元，并将石油安全输送至德克萨斯炼油厂，在那里可以为数千名美国工人提供高薪就业岗位。
自2008年以来，多个联邦和州机构对该项目进行了多次环境审查，所有这些机构都得出相同结论，建设KXL符合国家利益，且不会造成重大环境影响。此外，该项目于2015年获得国会批准，2017年获得内布拉斯加州公共服务委员会批准。
API是唯一一个代表天然气和石油行业各个方面的全国性贸易协会，它为美国提供1030万个就业机会和近8%的美国经济提供支持。API的600多个成员包括大型综合公司，以及勘探和生产、精炼、营销、管道、海洋业务以及服务和供应公司。他们提供了国家大部分的能源，并得到了超过4700万美国人不断增长的基层运动的支持。API成立于1919年，是一个标准制定机构。在最初的100年中，API制定了700多个标准，以提高运营和环境安全、效率和可持续性。
王磊 摘译自 世界石油
原文如下：
Keystone XL project critical to safely delivering energy to U.S.
The American Petroleum Institute issued a statement in support of President Trump’s issuance of a new Presidential permit for Keystone XL (KXL). This action reaffirms the national importance of this critical project to U.S. consumers and energy security and will help drive the project towards completion after more than 10 years of extensive environmental review.
“We applaud the Administration for taking a no-nonsense approach to permitting this essential critical infrastructure project. The Keystone XL Pipeline has passed every environmental review conducted over the last decade under both the Obama and Trump administrations. Every study has concluded it can be built safely, with no significant impact to the environment,” said API’s President and CEO, Mike Sommers.
The KXL Pipeline will create thousands of high-paying jobs, add millions of dollars to the nation’s economy and safely transport oil to Texas refineries where thousands of American workers are employed.
Multiple federal and state agencies have conducted numerous environmental reviews of the project since 2008, all of which have concluded that constructing KXL is in the national interest and does not pose significant environmental impacts. In addition, the project was approved by Congress in 2015 and the Nebraska Public Service Commission in 2017.
API is the only national trade association representing all facets of the natural gas and oil industry, which supports 10.3 million U.S. jobs and nearly 8 percent of the U.S. economy. API’s more than 600 members include large integrated companies, as well as exploration and production, refining, marketing, pipeline, marine businesses, and service and supply firms. They provide most of the nation’s energy and are backed by a growing grassroots movement of more than 47 million Americans. API was formed in 1919 as a standards-setting organization. In its first 100 years, API has developed more than 700 standards to enhance operational and environmental safety, efficiency and sustainability.
