据TABNinfo网站2月17日米兰报道，意大利能源巨头埃尼公司和沙特阿拉伯的沙特基础工业公司（萨比克）日前签署了一项联合开发协议，进一步开发一种把天然气转化为合成气的创新技术，而这种合成气可以进一步转化为甲醇等高价值燃料和化学品。

除其他活动外，该合作关系将包括建造一个工业示范厂，这个工业示范厂将在埃尼公司的工业厂房内建造和经营。这个开发项目将推进基于天然气短接触时间催化部分氧化(SCT-CPO)的技术，通过更有效地使用最清洁和更低温室气体排放的化石燃料来进一步维持埃尼公司和萨比克的业务。

这项技术最初是埃尼公司经过一段密集的研发期后开发的。这项技术将与萨比克的短接触时间反应器研发和萨比克在把合成气生产集成到生产衍生化学品的流程方面的广泛知识相结合。根据该协议，埃尼公司和萨比克将能够利用世界级的研发和运营经验使这个项目取得成功。

这个联合技术将是一种真正的创新方式，使合成气和集成到高价值的应用来实现更低的资本支出和运营成本，更高的能源效率，更低的二氧化碳排放和广泛的原料灵活性。

李峻 编译自 TABNinfo.com

原文如下：

Eni, Sabic to develop joint natural gas technology

Italian energy major Eni and Saudi Arabia’s Sabic have signed a joint development agreement to further develop an innovative technology for natural gas conversion into synthesis gas that can be further transformed into high value fuels and chemicals, such as methanol.

The partnership will involve, among other activities, the construction of an Industrial Demonstration Plant that will be built and operated inside an Eni industrial premises. The development project will advance the technology, which is based on the Short Contact Time Catalytic Partial Oxidation (SCT-CPO) of natural gas, to further sustain the Eni and SABIC business by using in a more efficient way the cleanest and lower GHG emission fossil fuel.

This technology was initially developed by Eni after an intensive R&D period. This was coupled with Sabic’s short contact time reactor R&D and the company’s extensive knowledge of the integration of synthesis gas generation into processes to produce derived chemicals. With this agreement, Eni and Sabic will be able to leverage world class R&D and operational experience to enable the success of the project.

The joint technology will be a truly innovative way of making synthesis gas and integration into high value applications to achieve lower capex and opex, higher energy efficiency, lower CO2 footprint and wide feedstock flexibility.