石油设备网讯 据Oil & Gas Journal网站6月12日华盛顿报道 世界银行全球天然气减排合作协会（GGFR）于6月12日披露，2018年天然气燃烧量同比增长3%，达到1450亿立方米。报告称，这一增长与美国原油产量的增加有关。尽管美国天然气使用量强劲，但每桶原油燃烧的天然气量仍然较低，为0.3立方米天然气/桶。
GGFR报告称，去年全球天然气燃烧量的增长相当于中美洲和南美国家的年天然气消耗总量。
报告指出，在美国，随着原油产量增长33%，燃烧率逐年上升48%。GGFR表示：“卫星遥感数据表明，增加的燃烧量几乎完全集中在北达科他州巴肯的页岩油盆地和德克萨斯州的二叠纪和伊格尔福特。这些地区在2018年发展迅速，巴肯地区的页岩油产量增长了29%，二叠纪地区增长了40%，伊格尔福特地区增长了15%。”
GGFR表示，在冲突中挣扎的国家也经历了从2017年水平的天然气燃烧增加。
在安哥拉，2018年天然气燃烧量同比下降27%。GGFR表示，很可能发生燃烧的伴生天然气是通过液化天然气工厂出口的，这对该国减少天然气燃烧的战略是一个积极的发展。GGFR由政府、石油公司和国际机构组成。美国国家海洋和大气管理局和GGFR根据2012年发射的一颗卫星上的先进传感器的观测结果，与科罗拉多矿业学校合作制定了燃烧估算。吴恒磊 编译自 Oil & Gas Journal
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World Bank: Global gas flaring up 3% in 2018
Flaring of natural gas rose 3% year-to-year in 2018 to an estimated 145 billion cu m, the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR) disclosed on June 12. The growth was associated with increased US crude oil production, although US flaring intensity—the volume of gas flared per barrel of produced oil—remained low at 0.3 m/bbl of gas, it said.
The worldwide flaring growth last year was equivalent to the total annual gas consumption in Central and South American countries, the GGFR reported.
It noted that in the US, flaring climbed 48% year-to-year as crude production rose 33%. “Satellite data indicate that increased flare volumes were concentrated almost exclusively in the shale oil basins in the Bakken in North Dakota and the Permian and Eagle Ford in Texas,” the GGFR said. “These areas saw rapid development in 2018, with shale oil production increasing by around 29% in the Bakken, 40% in the Permian, and 15% in the Eagle Ford.”
Countries struggling with conflict also experienced a gas flaring increase from 2017 levels, the GGFR said.
In Angola, gas flaring declined by 27% year-to-year during 2018. Associated gas that likely would have been flared was exported instead through an LNG plant, representing a positive development for the country’s strategy to reduce gas flaring.The GGFR is composed of governments, oil companies, and international institutions. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and GGFR have developed the flaring estimates in cooperation with the Colorado School of Mines based on observations from advanced sensors in a satellite launched in 2012.
