石油设备网讯 据美国彭博新闻社4月11日休斯顿报道，美国二叠纪盆地已经生产了如此多的天然气，以至于到去年年底生产商放空白白燃烧掉的天然气数量已经超过了德克萨斯州居民的需求量。自那以后，这种天然气放空燃烧的现象可能只会加剧。
天然气放空燃烧是一种有争议但很常见的做法，石油和天然气钻井商燃烧掉的天然气不容易或有效地捕获和储存。由于二叠纪盆地呈现大规模生产热潮，天然气放空燃烧释放出大量的二氧化碳，燃烧照亮了德克萨斯州西部和新墨西哥州的天空。二叠纪盆地的油井生产天然气作为副产品，而且由于管道基础设施跟不上扩张的步伐，能源公司有时必须在放空燃烧和生产放缓之间做出选择。
美国先锋自然资源公司首席执行官谢菲尔德星期三在纽约哥伦比亚大学举行的能源会议上说：“这是对二叠纪盆地的一个打击。国家、管道公司和生产商需要团结起来，想办法停止天然气白白放空燃烧掉。”
总部位于奥斯陆的挪威著名能源咨询公司雷斯塔能源公司的数据显示，二叠纪盆地的天然气放空燃烧量去年增加了85%左右，去年第四季度达到了553万立方米。穆迪投资者服务公司周四在一份报告中表示，在更多管道投入使用之前，徘徊在接近于零的本地价格仍将处于“压力之下”。
李峻 编译自 彭博社
原文如下：
Permian's flaring rises by 85% as oil boom continues
The Permian Basin has produced so much natural gas that by the end of 2018 producers were burning off more than enough of the fuel to meet residential demand across Texas. The phenomenon has likely only intensified since then.
Flaring is the controversial but common practice in which oil and gas drillers burn off gas that can’t be easily or efficiently captured and stored. It releases carbon dioxide and is lighting up the skies of West Texas and New Mexico as the Permian Basin undergoes a massive production boom. Oil wells there produce gas as a byproduct, and because pipeline infrastructure hasn’t kept pace with the expansion, energy companies must sometimes choose between flaring and slowing production.
“It’s a black eye for the Permian basin,” Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield said at Wednesday at an energy conference at Columbia University in New York. “The state, the pipeline companies and the producers -- we all need to come together to figure out a way to stop the flaring.”
The amount of gas flared in the Permian rose about 85% last year reaching 553 MMcfd in the fourth quarter, according to data from Oslo-based consultant Rystad Energy. Local prices that are hovering near zero will remain “under stress” until more pipelines come online, Moody’s Investors Service said in a note Thursday.
