据今日油价2月24日报道，据沙特新闻社报道，阿美公司计划投资1100亿美元开发Jafurah气田，该气田估计拥有约200万亿立方英尺的天然气。

该机构还报道，Jafurah是沙特阿拉伯最大的非常规天然气田，可能于2024年开始投产。预计到2036年达到日产量22亿立方英尺。

除天然气外，Jafurah还可以生产约4.25亿立方英尺的乙烷，以及55万桶/天的液化石油气和凝析油。

开发其天然气储量是沙特王国的一个优先事项，因为其寻求减少当地发电对原油的依赖，并转向天然气，因此以便有更多的石油出口。以后，沙特阿拉伯计划70%的电力来自天然气，其余来自可再生能源。

然而，沙特王国新能源部长阿卜杜勒·阿齐兹·本·萨勒曼（Abdulaziz bin Salman）表示，该国还计划成为天然气出口国。

本·萨尔曼本月早些时候表示，很快就会听说沙特王国有能力成为天然气出口国。

同时，沙特阿拉伯也在寻求天然气的国际扩张。去年，该公司的高级管理层在12月首次公开募股之前的首次电话会议中就提到了这一雄心壮志，并与Sempra Energy签署了一项购买阿瑟港液化天然气项目25％的协议。

然而，天然气也是石化行业的关键，而阿美公司也对石化产品制定了宏伟的计划。这家沙特公司正在承诺数十亿美元用于新的石化项目，包括在印度的440亿美元炼油和石化综合体，以及在马来西亚另一个综合体的70亿美元投资，并正在与公司谈判，以在这一领域建立更多的伙伴关系。

郝芬 译自 今日油价

原文如下：

Aramco To Invest $110 Billion In Huge Gas Field

Aramco plans to invest $110 billion in the development of the Jafurah gas field that is estimated to hold some 200 trillion cu ft of gas, the Saudi press Agency reported.

Jafurah is the largest unconventional gas field in Saudi Arabia and could begin producing in 2024, the agency also reported. Production is seen at 2.2 billion cu ft daily, a rate to be reached by 2036.

Besides gas, Jafurah could also produce around 425 million cu ft of ethane, and 550,000 bpd of gas liquids and oil condensates.

Developing its natural gas reserves is a priority for the Kingdom as it seeks to reduce its reliance on crude oil for local power generation and switch to gas so there is more oil for exports. In the future, Saudi Arabia plans to generate 70 percent of its electricity from natural gas and the remainder from renewables.

Yet the Kingdom also plans to become a natural gas exporter, and soon, according to its new energy minister, Abdulaziz bin Salman.

"Soon you will hear about the ability of the kingdom to be a gas exporter," bin Salman said earlier this month without offering any further details.

At the same time, Saudi Arabia is also seeking international expansion in natural gas. Last year the company’s senior management noted this ambition in the first conference call of the company ahead of its initial public offering, which took place in December, noting an agreement signed with Sempra Energy for the purchase of 25 percent in the Port Arthur LNG project.

Yet natural gas is also key for the petrochemicals industry and Aramco has big plans for petrochemicals as well. The Saudi company is committing billions of dollars to new petrochemical projects, including a US$44-billion refinery and petrochemical complex in India and a US$7-billion investment in another complex in Malaysia, and is in negotiations with companies for more partnerships in this segment.