石油设备网讯 据普氏能源资讯6月12日报道称，阿根廷一位政府官员和业内人士周三表示，随着企业全面开发Vaca Muerta页岩区，阿根廷有望实现更快的石油和天然气产量增长，但仍需克服障碍。
内乌尔省长Omar Gutierrez在内乌肯举行的IDEA Vaca Muerta研讨会上说：“我们将拥有更加丰富、质量更好、价格更低的能源。”
世界上最大的页岩区之一Vaca Muerta正在开发中，这是北美以外的第一个页岩开发项目。“但到目前为止，与潜力相比，我们所做的还很少。”Gutierrez说。在这片3万平方公里的页岩区内，只有三分之一的面积处于特许经营状态，只有5.4％的土地处于全面开发中。
Gutierrez表示，尽管如此，第一次全面开发已经使“逐步减少天然气进口并允许我们开始出口石油和天然气”成为可能。
一天前，埃克森美孚表示将在内乌肯的一个区块进行长期油气项目开发，目标是Vaca Muerta。这家总部位于美国的公司计划在5年内从Bajo del Choique-La Invernada区块钻探90口井，使日产量达到5.5万桶油当量。
徐蕾 摘译自 普氏能源资讯
原文如下：
Argentina oil, gas production poised for growth, yet hurdles stand in way
Argentina is on track for faster oil and natural gas production growth as companies enter full-scale development in the Vaca Muerta shale play, but hurdles must still be surmounted, a government official and industry insiders said Wednesday.
"We are going to have energy that will be all the time more abundant, better in quality and cheaper," Neuquen Governor Omar Gutierrez said at the IDEA Vaca Muerta seminar in the city of Neuquen.
Vaca Muerta, one of the biggest shale plays in the world, is coming into development -- the first outside North America. But so far little has been done in comparison with the potential. only one-third of the play's 30,000 sq km of acreage is under concession and just 5.4% is in full-scale development, Gutierrez said.
Despite this, the first full-scale developments have made it possible "to gradually reduce gas imports and allow us to start exporting oil and gas," Gutierrez said.
He spoke a day after ExxonMobil said it will proceed with a long-term oil and gas development project on a block in Neuquen, targeting Vaca Muerta. The US-based company plans to drill 90 wells to take production to 55,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day in five years from the Bajo del Choique-La Invernada block.
