据今日油价网站7月29日消息 据路透社报道，就在达纳天然气公司表示未能在6号海上区块开采任何商业石油和天然气的几天后，达纳天然气就将其埃及能源资产出售，并聘请了Holt & Co公司的Tudor Pickering作为顾问。

今年早些时候，当该公司开始在6号区块进行钻探时，该公司表示，它可能拥有多达4万亿立方英尺的天然气。

埃及是继2015年意大利埃尼石油公司发现的巨大海上Zohr油田之后，目前天然气勘探的热点之一。今年2月，埃及政府向包括BP、埃克森美孚和壳牌在内的12家石油公司颁发了勘探许可证。此后，能源公司已承诺在埃及进行大约100亿美元的投资勘探。

然而，达纳天然气公司正朝着另一个方向发展：据路透社消息人士透露，该公司计划将全部精力集中在伊拉克库尔德斯坦半自治区的业务上。他们补充称，由于增长潜力更大，达纳已经决定离开埃及，把重点放在库尔德斯坦。此外，该消息人士表示，阿联酋公司在库尔德斯坦有更高的资本支出要求。

达纳在库尔德斯坦的两个气田拥有股份，根据达纳在一份监管文件中引用的一份新的审计报告，它们可能成为伊拉克最大的气田。根据审计，达纳作为合资企业的少数股东，在这两个油田的储量中所占份额为10亿桶油当量，高于此前储量估计的9.5亿桶。

其中一个油气田Khor Mor似乎有较大的勘探潜力。达纳计划到2022年将日产量提高至6.5亿立方英尺，到2023年将进一步提高到9亿立方英尺/日。

王磊 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

Emirati Gas Company To Sell Egypt Assets

Emirati Dana Gas has put its Egyptian energy assets up for sale and has hired Tudor Pickering, Holt & Co. as advisor, Reuters reports, citing unnamed sources, just days after Dana Gas said it had failed to strike any commercial oil and gas in offshore Block 6.

Earlier this year, when the company began drilling at Block 6, it said it could hold as much as 4 trillion cu ft of natural gas.

Egypt is one of the hot spots in natural gas exploration right now, after the discovery of the giant offshore Zohr field, which Italy’s Eni discovered in 2015. Energy companies have committed some US$10 billion to exploration in Egypt this year, after the government awarded 12 exploration licenses to players including BP, Exxon, and Shell in February.

Yet Dana Gas is going in another direction: the company plans to focus entirely on its operations in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in Iraq, according to one of the Reuters sources. They added that Dana had made the decision to leave Egypt and focus on Kurdistan because of the greater potential for growth. Also, the Emirati company has higher capital expenditure requirements in Kurdistan, the source said.

Dana has stakes in two gas fields in Kurdistan and, according to a new audit report cited by Dana in a regulatory filing, they could turn out to be the largest in Iraq. According to the audit, Dana’s share of the reserves of the two fields as minority shareholder in the JV that operates them came in at 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent, up from 950 million barrels from earlier reserve estimates.

One of the fields, Khor Mor, seems to be particularly promising. Dana plans to raise production from it to 650 million cu ft daily by 2022 and further to 900 million cu ft daily by 2023.