埃尼公司将继续推进沙迦天然气项目

据天然气新闻2020年10月12日迪拜报道，国有沙迦国家石油公司(SNOC)首席执行官Hatem al-Mosa近日告诉记者，尽管发生了新冠肺炎疫情以及意大利石油巨头埃尼公司削减了资本支出和成本，这家意大利石油公司仍将在阿联酋第3大酋长国沙迦酋长国继续推进一个天然气项目。

今年1月份，SNOC和埃尼公司表示，埃尼公司是SNOC在沙迦B区块的一个合作伙伴，他们在这个区块里发现了马哈尼气田，其所钻的第一口井获得了5000万立方英尺/天的贫气和伴生凝析油流量。沙迦酋长国是组成阿联酋的7个酋长国之一。

Hatem al-Mosa表示：“我们没有看到埃尼公司对其所占开发份额的融资产生任何影响。”“自从获得马哈尼天然气发现以来，我们一直在实施我们的投产这口气田的计划，同时制定旨在划定已发现气田界限的计划。”

7月20日，埃尼公司宣布，由于油价暴跌和新冠肺炎疫情的影响，埃尼公司将削减26亿欧元(31亿美元)的资本支出，主要削减用于上游业务的资本支出。

埃尼公司计划今年的资本支出比原预算低35%左右，2021年低30%，预计明年将削减24亿欧元。埃尼公司当时表示，削减资本支出“几乎完全集中在勘探开发部门”。

埃尼公司首席执行官德斯卡尔西表示，考虑到未来仍将出现“巨大的不确定性迹象”，今年和明年均削减14亿欧元的运营成本也将使埃尼公司处于更好的状态。

李峻 编译自 天然气新闻

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Eni going ahead with Sharjah gas project despite COVID-19, capex cuts: UAE's SNOC

Eni is going ahead with a gas project in the UAE's third largest emirate despite COVID-19 and the Italian company's capital expenditures and cost cuts, the CEO of state-owned Sharjah National Oil Corp., or SNOC,said.

Eni is a partner with SNOC in Block B in Sharjah, where it discovered the Mahani reservoir, with the first drilled well achieving flow rates of up to 50 MMcf/d of lean gas and associated condensate, SNOC and Eni said in January. Sharjah is one of the seven emirates that forms the UAE.

"We have not seen any impact from Eni on the financing of their share of the development," said Hatem al-Mosa. "Since that discovery, we have been moving with our plans to bring the well on stream while making plans for delineating the discovered reservoir and finding out how big it is."

Eni announced on July 20 capital spending cuts of Eur2.6 billion ($3.1 billion), mainly in its upstream business, due to the collapse in oil prices a Eni's planned capital spending is about 35% lower than its original budget for 2020 and 30% lower for 2021, with Eur2.4 billion in anticipated cuts next year. The curtailments are "almost fully focused on the E&P segment," Eni said at the time.

CEO Claudio Descalzi said operational cost cutting of Eur1.4 billion both this year and next will also put the company in better shape, given "great signs of uncertainty still to come."

nd the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.