据雪佛龙官网1月18日宣布，其在澳大利亚的子公司日前与中国新奥集团液化天然气（LNG）贸易公司签署了一项不具约束力的意向性协议，根据这项协议，雪佛龙公司将从其在澳大利亚由其担任作业者的高更天然气项目向中国新奥集团交付LNG。当这笔交易完成时，中国新奥集团LNG贸易公司预计在10年内每年将接收50万吨LNG，交付的时间将在2018年或2019年第一季度开始。
雪佛龙公司负责中游和开发的执行副总裁迈克•沃斯说：“这是开发我们在澳大利亚天然气业务又迈出的一步，这也表示我们与中国新的LNG买家的合作取得了进一步进展。”
雪佛龙澳大利亚分公司总经理Roy Krzywosinski说：“由于高更项目的投产日期日益临近，我们欢迎中国新奥集团成为这个项目的一个新客户。这笔交易显示了从雪佛龙公司澳大利亚项目供应LNG的竞争力。”
原文如下：
“This is one more step in the development of our Australian gas business and our global LNG portfolio,” said Mike Wirth, executive vice president, Chevron Midstream and Development. “It also represents further progress with new LNG buyers in China who are poised to transform the LNG landscape in that country.”
“As first LNG production from the Gorgon Project draws near, we welcome ENN as a new customer,” said Roy Krzywosinski, managing director, Chevron Australia. “This deal shows the competitiveness of LNG supply from Chevron’s Australian projects.”
As Chevron continues to grow into one of the world’s largest LNG suppliers, this HOA follows the recently announced non-binding LNG supply HoA with China Huadian Green Energy Co., Ltd.
ENN LNG Trading Company Limited is one of the subsidiaries of ENN Energy Holdings Ltd., which is one of the largest natural gas distribution companies in China. ENN Energy Holdings Ltd. operates in 146 cities across 17 provinces and autonomous regions, with over 11.3 million residential and 52 thousand industrial/commercial customers. ENN’s Zhoushan LNG receiving terminal is being constructed and expected to be in operation by 2018.
The Gorgon Project is a joint venture of the Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (47.3 percent), ExxonMobil (25 percent), Shell (25 percent), Osaka Gas (1.25 percent), Tokyo Gas (1 percent) and Chubu Electric Power (0.417 percent).
The Gorgon Project combines the development of the Gorgon Field and the nearby Jansz-Io Field. Facilities being built on Barrow Island include an LNG facility with three processing units capable of producing 15.6 MTPA of LNG, a carbon dioxide injection project and a domestic gas plant.
Chevron’s subsidiaries in Australia are also developing the Wheatstone Project as an LNG and domestic gas operation near Onslow, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The project’s initial capacity is expected to be 8.9 MTPA of LNG.
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