据油田技术4月21日消息称，Esso Australia Pty Ltd（埃克森美孚澳大利亚公司的子公司）现在通过启动吉普斯兰盆地合资企业的西巴拉库塔项目，向澳大利亚东部输送天然气。
西巴拉库塔是澳大利亚东南海岸最大的已探明未开发天然气田之一。在投资4亿澳元后，该公司将提供天然气供应，以帮助遏制澳大利亚南部和东部各州最早在2023年出现的潜在天然气短缺。
埃克森美孚澳大利亚公司主席Nathan Fay表示:“西巴拉库塔项目可能是这十年来东澳大利亚最大的国内天然气项目，在我们50多年来为澳大利亚家庭和企业可靠供应天然气的悠久历史的基础上进一步发展。”
吉普斯兰盆地目前仍是东海岸国内市场最大的天然气供应源。西巴拉库塔气田表明，它仍有能力为市场带来实质性的新天然气供应——巴斯海峡仍有很大的潜力。”
到本十年末，吉普斯兰盆地将继续拥有供应澳大利亚东南部三分之一国内天然气需求的潜力。
Nathan说：“我们向澳大利亚提供可靠和廉价的能源有很长的历史。我们已经投入了大量资金来维持我们的客户——从重工业到冬季取暖家庭——所依赖的能源供应。”
曹海斌 摘译自 油田技术
原文如下：
ExxonMobil begins delivering gas from West Barracouta
Esso Australia Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Australia Pty Ltd) is now delivering gas to eastern Australia, with the commissioning of the Gippsland Basin Joint Venture’s West Barracouta project.
West Barracouta was one of the largest proven undeveloped gas fields off the south-eastern Australian coast. Following a AUS$400 million investment it will now deliver gas supplies to help curb the potential gas shortfalls predicted for Australia’s southern and eastern states as early as 2023.
"West Barracouta will likely be the largest domestic gas project for eastern Australia that comes along this decade, building on our long and proud history of reliably supplying gas used in Australian homes and businesses for more than 50 years," said ExxonMobil Australia chairman Nathan Fay.
“The Gippsland Basin remains today the largest single source of gas supply to the east coast domestic market. And West Barracouta demonstrates it still has the capacity to bring material new gas supply to the market - there is still plenty of potential left in the Bass Strait.”
By the end of this decade the Gippsland Basin will continue to have the potential to supply one-third of south east Australia’s domestic gas demand.
“We have a long history of supplying reliable and affordable energy to Australia and have invested significantly in maintaining this supply of energy that our customers, from heavy industries to families heating up their homes in winter, rely on,” said Nathan.
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