石油设备网讯 据路透社3月12日消息，阿根廷能源部长古斯塔沃•洛佩特吉(Gustavo Lopetegui)在休斯顿表示，阿根廷计划修建新的天然气管道，并吸引更多对Vaca Muerta页岩油气生产的投资，以提高产量，确保天然气的运输和销售。
阿根廷国内天然气消费具有很强的季节性，在阿根廷冬季需求达到高峰，南半球夏季几个月的消费量则明显下降。
天然气需求的季节性与阿根廷瓦卡-穆尔塔页岩开采，不断增加的天然气产量相比（被称为“阿根廷二叠纪”），尽管其地质性质已与Eagle Ford相比，Eagle Ford是美国以外页岩气开采中少数亮点之一。
路透社援引洛佩特吉在休斯顿的话说，瓦卡-穆尔塔每年需要50亿至100亿美元的投资来提高产量。目前对瓦卡穆尔塔的年度投资约为43亿美元。
阿根廷部长说，阿根廷还计划在9月底前签署从Vaca Muerta到首都布宜诺斯艾利斯的天然气管道建设合同。他指出，这些建设合同的价值将高达18亿美元。
路透援引Lopetegui的话说，" Vaca Muerta必须和谐成长，才能顺利生产、运输和销售。"
尽管Vaca Muerta拥有巨大的页岩储量，但其高昂的生产成本迄今阻碍了美国页岩气开采阿根廷的页岩革命。
据Lopetegui称，瓦卡穆尔塔的一些生产商最近已成功大幅降低了生产成本。
阿根廷政府周一在休斯顿与主要能源公司举行的一次会议上表示，Lopetegui在能源领域提供了价值300亿美元的投资机会，包括100亿美元的石油和天然气、82亿美元的基础设施、120亿美元的电力和可再生能源以及30亿美元的新市场。
尹路 编译自 路透社
原文如下：
Argentina Looks To Boost Gas Output
Argentina aims to build new natural gas pipelines and to attract more investment in oil and gas production in the Vaca Muerta shale play in order to increase production and secure transportation and sales for its gas, Energy Minister Gustavo Lopetegui said in Houston.
Domestic gas consumption in Argentina is highly seasonal, with peak demand in the Argentinian winter and significantly lower consumption during the summer months in the southern hemisphere.
This seasonality in natural gas demand compares with constantly rising gas production from Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale play – dubbed the ‘Argentinian Permian’, although its geologic properties have been compared to the Eagle Ford - which is one of the few bright spots in shale gas production outside the United States.
Vaca Muerta will need investments of between US$5 billion and US$10 billion annually to boost production, Reuters quoted Lopetegui as saying in Houston. Current annual investments in Vaca Muerta are around US$4.3 billion.
Argentina also aims to award by the end of September construction contracts for natural gas pipelines from Vaca Muerta to the capital Buenos Aires, the minister said, noting that these construction contracts would be valued at up to US$1.8 billion.
“Vaca Muerta must grow harmonically so it is possible to produce, transport and sell without problems,” Lopetegui said, as carried by Reuters.
While Vaca Muerta holds large shale reserves, it has high production costs which have so far hampered a U.S.-style shale revolution in Argentina.
According to Lopetegui, some producers in Vaca Muerta have recently managed to reduce production costs significantly.
At a meeting with major energy companies in Houston on Monday, Lopetegui presented investment opportunities worth US$30 billion in the energy sector, including US$10 billion in oil and gas, US$8.2 billion in infrastructure, US$12 billion in electricity and renewables, and US$3 billion in access to new markets, the Argentine government said on its website.
