石油设备网讯 据路透社日本轻井泽报道，周日，日本最大的石油和天然气勘探公司Inpex与印尼政府签署了一项关于开发印尼Abadi LNG项目的基本协议，推进了这个150亿美元的项目。
Inpex总裁Takayuki Ueda表示，公司拥有该项目65%的股份，他们计划在几周内向印尼政府提交该项目的开发计划，并计划在2至3年内做出最终投资决定。
签署仪式是在东京西北部的轻井泽举行的G20能源和环境部长会议期间举行的，印尼能源和矿产资源部长Ignasius Jonan出席了会议。
位于Masela区块的Abadi项目的剩余股份，由全球最大的液化天然气买家和卖家荷兰皇家壳牌所有。
但行业和银行消息人士5月称，在资产处置计划融资逾300亿美元后，壳牌正着手出售其在Abadi项目中的股份。
在被问及壳牌是否计划出售其在该项目中的股份时，Ueda称公司还未从壳牌那里听说这件事。
他对记者说：“我们今天代表项目合作伙伴与印尼政府签署了一份协议，得到了壳牌的支持。”Ueda 补充道，他们关于该项目的共享合同将在2025年至2030年期间开始实施，并延长27年至2055年。
Ueda表示，协议包括成本估计、目标项目期和财政状况，但没有提供进一步细节。
这个项目的建设计划原本于2018年开始，但在2016年被推迟到至少2020年，因为印尼当局指示从海上设施转向陆上设施。
2018年3月，Inpex开始对该项目进行前期工程设计，预计每年的液化天然气处理能力为950万吨。
对于Inpex来说，这将是其作为运营商的第二个大型液化天然气项目，仅次于在澳大利亚400亿美元的Ichthys LNG项目。Ichthys LNG项目作为日本最大的海外投资，也是日本首个主要的领先运营商项目，在几次延误和成本超支之后，于去年10月开始运输液化天然气。
詹晓晶 摘自 路透社
原文如下：
Inpex, Indonesian government sign Abadi LNG development agreement
Japan’s biggest oil and gas explorer Inpex Corp and the Indonesian government signed a basic agreement on the development of Indonesia’s Abadi liquefied natural gas (LNG) project on Sunday, moving forward the $15 billion project.
Inpex President Takayuki Ueda said the Japanese company, which owns a 65 percent stake in the project, said they plan to submit a development plan for the project within several weeks to the Indonesian government and aim to make a final investment decision within 2-3 years.
The signing ceremony took place on the sidelines of a meeting of G20 energy and environment ministers in Karuizawa, northwest of Tokyo, which Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan is attending.
The remaining stake in the Abadi project, situated in the Masela block, is owned by Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s largest buyer and seller of LNG.
But Shell is moving to sell its stake in the Abadi project, industry and banking sources said in May, following on from an asset disposal program that has raised more than $30 billion.
Asked whether Shell plans to sell its stake in the project, Ueda said his company has not heard about that from Shell.
“We have signed a heads of agreement with the Indonesian government today on behalf of the project partners, after gaining endorsement from Shell,” he told reporters.
Their sharing contract for the project, which is aimed to start operation between 2025 and 2030, was extended by 27 years to 2055, Ueda added.
The agreement includes estimated costs, targeted project period and fiscal conditions, Ueda said, without giving further details.
Construction for this project was due to start in 2018, but in 2016 was delayed until at least 2020 after Indonesian authorities instructed a switch from an offshore to an onshore facility.
In March 2018, Inpex began preliminary front-end engineering design (Pre-FEED) for the project with an annual LNG processing capacity of 9.5 million tonnes.
For Inpex, this will be its second major LNG project as an operator, after the $40 billion Ichthys LNG project in Australia. The Ichthys, Japan’s biggest overseas investment and the country’s first major project as lead operator, started shipping LNG last October, after several delays and cost overruns.
