石油设备网讯 据The Wet Australian 5月29日报道，BP表示，未来碳足迹相对较低的液化天然气将受到买家的青睐，这与该公司和澳大利亚伍德赛德石油公司拟议的碳密集型项目战略有一定的利害关系。
BP负责碳资产管理的副总裁加德纳-希尔（Gardiner Hill）表示，就像亚马逊（Amazon）和微软（Microsoft）等公司承诺完全由可再生能源提供动力一样，未来液化天然气客户将增加对其购买的天然气碳强度的敏感度。
当天，希尔在布里斯班的阿帕帕港会议上说，已经对这个问题进行了很多思考。他说，“我们正在研究如何使碳气供应链低于行业标准。”
BP在价值205亿美元的Browse液化天然气项目中拥有约17%的股份。伍德赛德计划今年晚些时候启动前端工程，并计划在2020年底前获批该工程。
希尔先生说，Browse是一个碳密集程度非常高的项目，水库中的二氧化碳含量很高，但并不罕见。
根据去年11月伍德赛德提交给联邦环境部的文件显示，在50年的时间里，browse的离岸区每年将排放400万吨的二氧化碳，最高排放量达700万吨。
大部分排放物来自燃烧的天然气，用于驱动两个浮式生产船，并将天然气泵送至西北大陆架900公里处的Karratha天然气厂，即构成储层气10%的二氧化碳将被排放到大气中。
伍德赛德的首席执行官彼得•科尔曼（PeterColeman）28日表示，由于位于联邦水域，Browse的海上设施不会受到美国环境保护署（EPA）碳排放指导方针的约束，现在这些指导方针已经被撤销了，但西北大陆架的天然气工厂在EPA的管辖范围内。
希尔表示：“这是一个极具挑战性的发展，但这也是一个绝佳的机会。我认为，在合适的投资组合中，Browse项目是最合适的。”
希尔表示，世界各地的石油和天然气公司都要在不知道未来的碳政策下，面对投资决策的风险。
“这正是能源转换的挑战，”他说“不幸的是，今天没有碳价格。我们认为碳价格是应对气候变化的一个重要途径。现在二氧化碳可以自由排放到大气中，但不应该是这样，而改变人们的行为需要付出代价。”
洪伟立 摘译自 The Wet Australian
原文如下：
APPEA 2019: BP wants to please customers w，ith less carbon-intensive LNG
LNG with a lower carbon footprint will be favoured by some buyers in the future says BP, which has a stake in Woodside’s proposed carbon-intensive Browse project.
BP vice-president for carbon management Gardiner Hill said just like companies such as Amazon and Microsoft committing to be entirely powered by renewable energy, LNG customers of the future would be sensitive to the carbon intensity of the gas they purchase.
Mr Hill told the APPEA conference in Brisbane this morning that the British oil major had put a lot of thought into the issue.
“We are looking at how we can have a lower carbon gas supply chain than the industry standard,” he said.
BP owns about 17 per cent of the $US20.5 billion ($29.6 billion) Browse LNG project. Woodside plans to start front-end engineering later this year and aims to sanction it by the end of 2020.
Mr Hill said Browse was a very carbon intensive project with a high but-not-unusual level of carbon dioxide in the reservoir.
The offshore component of Browse would emit the equivalent of 4 million tonnes of CO2 a year for 50 years, with emissions peaking at 7 million tonnes a year, according to Woodside documents filed with the Federal Environment Department in November.
Most of the emissions would come from gas burnt to power two floating production vessels and pump the gas 900km to the North West Shelf’s Karratha gas plant.
Carbon dioxide making up 10 per cent the reservoir gas would be vented to the atmosphere.
Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman said yesterday that Browse’s offshore facilities would not have been subject to the controversial and now withdrawn EPA carbon emission guidelines because they were in Commonwealth waters.
The North West Shelf plant is within the jurisdiction of the EPA.
“It’s a hugely challenging development, but it’s a terrific opportunity,” Mr Hill said.
“I think within the right portfolio, it probably has the right characteristics (for investment).”
Mr Hill said oil and gas companies throughout the world were having to manage the risk of making investment decisions without knowing what carbon policy would apply in the future.
“That’s exactly the challenge of the energy transition,” he said.
“Unfortunately, today there is no carbon price. We think a carbon price is an important way to tackle climate change.
“It’s free to emit CO2 to the atmosphere. It doesn’t feel right, it shouldn’t be like that, it really needs to be a cost to change people’s behaviour.”
