石油设备网讯 据普氏能源资讯2019年5月22日温哥华报道，马来西亚国家石油公司(马国油/Petronas)的一位高管周三表示，该公司在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省东北部的蒙特尼远景区拥有大量天然气资源，该公司正在为这些资源寻找出路，因此在液化天然气（LNG）出口增长目标上，该公司将重点放在加拿大而不是美国。
马国油加拿大分公司首席执行官马克·菲茨杰拉德是在出席在温哥华举行的一次行业会议期间接受媒体记者采访时发表上述讲话的。他表示，通过马国油在位于基蒂马特的LNG加拿大项目中持有的股份，马国油与其合作伙伴在该地区控制的60 万亿立方英尺的探明和可能有天然气资源在未来40年中只有10%的资源量将被吸收。
这意味着马国油将不得不寻找扩张机会或寻找另一个LNG出口项目来投资该天然气产量的运输。该地区缺乏足够的管道基础设施，使得加拿大西部沉积盆地的大量天然气难以向东输送至该国，或向南输送至美国。菲茨杰拉德表示，通过油轮向西出口亚洲仍是最佳的长期解决方案。
他说：“我们现在的重点完全是如何将我们拥有的资源货币化，而这一战略显然是以综合开发为中心的。美国的LNG战略当然比加拿大更先进，但从长远来看，加拿大拥有成功所必需的因素。”
对于马国油和其他加拿大天然气开发商来说，实现这一目标的道路并不平坦。
李峻 编译自 Platts
原文如下：
Petronas committed to further LNG export development in Western Canada
Malaysia's Petronas is focused on Canada over the US in its LNG export growth goals as it seeks outlets for the significant natural gas resources that it holds in the Montney play in northeast British Columbia, an executive said Wednesday.
Through the stake the company has in the LNG Canada project in Kitimat, only about 10% of the 60 Tcf of proved and contingent gas resources that Petronas and its partners control in the region would be absorbed over 40 years, Petronas Canada CEO Mark Fitzgerald said in an interview on the sidelines of an industry conference in Vancouver.
That means Petronas will have to find expansion opportunities or another LNG export project in which to invest to move that gas. Lack of sufficient pipeline infrastructure in the area makes it difficult to move larger quantities of Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin gas eastward across the country or southward to the US. Exports westward to Asia via tanker remain the best long-term answer, Fitzgerald said.
"Our focus is entirely right now on how do we monetize the resource that we have, and that strategy is clearly centered on an integrated development," he said. "The US is certainly more advanced in its LNG strategy than Canada is, but long-term Canada has the factors that will be necessary for success."
The road to that reality has been an uneven one for Petronas and other Canadian developers.
