美国Sycar计划在厄瓜多尔建造首个LNG进口终端

据石油世界期刊7月28日伦敦报道，厄瓜多尔着眼于首个LNG进口终端，预计将于2021年开始建设。

美国Sycar公司与一家未具名的LNG贸易公司合作，打算安装一个浮动存储和再气化装置（FSRU），以向El Oro省的130MW Thermo Gas Machala燃气电厂提供再气化的LNG。 该码头还将有一个液化天然气卡车加气站。

该项目已获得厄瓜多尔能源部的批准，Sycar有望在今年第四季度之前完成环境许可。

厄瓜多尔能源部近年来一直在寻求使该国的电力供应来源多样化，包括从秘鲁进口液化天然气和可能的管道天然气输送。厄瓜多尔石油部副部长胡安·卡洛斯·贝尔梅奥（Juan Carlos Bermeo）去年表示，厄瓜多尔唯一的天然气田，日产2,800万立方英尺（即2.88亿立方米/年）的阿米斯塔德气田的储量下降，将使该国在未来几年内面临国内供应短缺的局面。未来四年内，阿米斯塔德的日产量预计将降至800万立方英尺。

这个国家主要依靠燃油发电厂供电，并正在考虑将旧的燃油发电厂转化为燃气设施，不仅是为了满足电力需求，而且也是为了降低成本和排放。

厄瓜多尔还打算通过建造五家新工厂来扩大水力发电，尽管规模比现有的三家小。这将使总水电量从2.05吉瓦增加到2.79吉瓦。

郝芬 译自 石油世界期刊

原文如下:

US firm Sycar plans to build Ecuador's

Ecuador eyes first LNG import terminal with construction expected to start in 2021.

Sycar, in partnership with an unnamed LNG trading firm, intends to install a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to provide regasified LNG to the 130MW Thermo Gas Machala gas-fired power plant in El Oro province. The terminal will also have an LNG truck-filling station.

The project has received approval from Ecuador's hydrocarbon ministry, with Sycar expecting to complete environmental licensing by the fourth quarter of this year.

Ecuador's energy ministry has been seeking to diversify the country's power supply sources in recent years, including LNG imports and possibly pipeline gas deliveries from Peru. Declining reserves at Ecuador's only gas field, the 28mn ft3/d (288mn m3/yr) Amistad, have left the country on course to face a domestic supply shortage in the next "few years", deputy hydrocarbons minister Juan Carlos Bermeo said last year . Amistad's production is expected to fall to 8mn ft3/d within the next four years .

The country depends mostly on oil-fired plants for power supply, and is considering converting old oil-fired plants into gas-fired facilities not only to meet power demand but also to reduce costs and emissions.

Ecuador also intends to boost hydroelectric generation by building five new plants, albeit smaller than its three existing ones. This is set to raise total hydroelectric capacity to 2.79GW from 2.05GW.