据普氏能源资讯7月30日悉尼报道，伍德赛德公司周二表示，由于澳大利亚西北部地区的液化天然气供应量不断增加，公司正寻求在西澳大利亚州开发液化天然气作为海上运输燃料的市场。目前，该地区有4家液化天然气出口工厂，总产能超过6000万吨/年。

该公司表示，仅在伍德赛德液化天然气业务基地皮尔巴拉港口，船舶对液化天然气的需求就可能高达每年400万吨。

伍德赛德首席运营官Meg O'Neil周一表示表示： “这是西澳州试图占领的一个显而易见的市场，有着全新产业的潜力，以及由此带来的就业和投资机会。”

伍德赛德今年4月启用了Pluto液化天然气卡车装载设施，该设施可装载至多20万吨/年的液化天然气，并可替代至多3亿升柴油。

伍德赛德的一位发言人周二通过电子邮件表示：“伍德赛德最初的重点是向皮尔巴拉、金伯利和西澳洲其他地区的采矿企业和社区供应卡车液化天然气，用于发电。卡车运输的液化天然气也将被用于供应沿海船舶，包括2017年加入伍德赛德船队的LNG动力船Siem Thiima。”

Meg O'Neil 称：“从长远来看，卡车装载设施提供的液化天然气可以支持该地区重型运输部门向卡车和火车使用更清洁燃料的过渡。伍德赛德还计划开发国际航运业液化天然气供应基础设施，特别是从皮尔巴拉到亚洲的繁忙贸易路线上的铁矿石运输船。”她指出，她指出，皮尔巴拉每年进口约30亿升柴油，主要用于采矿业。目前，出口铁矿石的船只每年消耗约50亿升重油。

两周前，矿业巨头必和必拓(BHP)发布了第一份液化天然气燃料的散货船投标书，将运送多达2700万吨铁矿石，约占其出口的10%。

此次招标是“绿色走廊联合工业项目”的一部分，该项目是由行业推动的澳中路线铁矿石和煤炭运输计划。

裘寅 编译自 普氏能源资讯

原文如下：

Woodside eyes developing market for Western Australia's LNG to fuel ships

Woodside is seeking to develop a market for LNG as a seaborne transport fuel in the state of Western Australia amid growing supply in Australia's northwest region that now has four LNG export plants with a combined capacity of more than 60 million mt/year, the company said Tuesday.

Demand for LNG from ships at Pilbara ports alone, where Woodside's LNG operations are based, could amount to up to 4 million mt/year, the company said.

"It's a blindingly obvious market for WA to try to capture, with the potential for a whole new industry and the jobs and investment that brings. And now is the time to be going after that opportunity," Woodside's chief operations officer Meg O'Neil said on Monday.

Woodside in April opened its Pluto LNG truck loading facility, which is capable of loading up to 200,000 mt/year of LNG and displacing up to 300 million liters of diesel.

"Woodside's initial focus is on supplying trucked LNG to mining operations and communities in the Pilbara, Kimberley and elsewhere in WA for power generation. Trucked LNG will also be used to supply coastal marine vessels, including the LNG-powered Siem Thiima, which joined Woodside's fleet in 2017," a spokeswoman for Woodside said via email Tuesday.

"In the longer term, the availability of LNG from the truck loading facility could support the transition towards cleaner fuel for trucks and trains in the region's heavy transport sector. Woodside is also planning to develop infrastructure for suppyling LNG to the international shipping industry, particularly iron ore carriers on the busy trade route from the Pilbara to Asia," she said, noting that around 3 billion liters/year of diesel is imported into the Pilbara, mainly for the mining industry, and the ships exporting iron ore currently consume about 5 billion liters/year of heavy fuel oil.

Two weeks ago, mining giant BHP issued the first LNG-fuelled bulk carrier tender, which is to ship up to 27 million mt of iron ore, or about 10% of its exports.

The tender is part of the Green Corridor joint industry project, an industry-driven initiative for the transportation of iron ore and coal on the Australia-China route.