据石油世网2021年5月7日悉尼报道，在澳大利亚和英国上市的全球著名资源公司澳大利亚矿业巨头必和必拓公司表示，该公司日前已开始在位于特立尼达和多巴哥近海的鲁比油气项目生产石油和天然气。

鲁比油气田在高峰期的石油日产量为16000桶，天然气日产量为8000万立方英尺(226万立方米)。

必和必拓公司表示，鲁比油气田的钻井和完井作业仍在进行中，后续油气井将在今年4月至6月和7月至9月两个季度内投产，预计9月底前完成这个项目。

必和必拓公司是鲁比油气田的运营商，拥有68.46%的股份，特立尼达和多巴哥国家天然气公司拥有剩余的31.54%的股份。

必和必拓公司在2019年8月批准了价值2.83亿美元的资金，用于分担鲁比油气田的开发成本。

尽管必和必拓公司预计鲁比油气田总产量将处于区间的高端，必和必拓仍保持了其2020-21财年(至6月30日)9500万- 1.02亿桶油当量(26万-28万桶油当量/天)的产量指导。7 - 3月期间的日产量为27.7万桶油当量，比2019-20年同期的30万桶油当量下降了8%。

李峻 编译自 石油世界网

原文如下：

First oil out from Trinidad's Ruby field

Australia- and UK-listed resources firm BHP has started oil production at the Ruby oil and gas project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. Ruby will have capacity to produce 16,000 b/d of oil and 80mn ft3/d (2.26mn m3/d) of gas at its peak.

Drilling and completion activities at Ruby are ongoing, with subsequent wells to be placed into production in the April-June and July-September quarters of 2021, and project completion is expected by the end of September, BHP said.

BHP is the operator of Ruby with a 68.46pc interest and the state-controlled National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago owns the remaining 31.54pc, BHP said.

BHP approved funding worth $283mn for its share of the development costs covering the Ruby field in August 2019.

BHP has maintained its production guidance of 95mn-102mn bl of oil equivalent (boe) (260,000-280,000 boe/d) for the 2020-21 fiscal year to 30 June, although it expects total output to be at the higher end of the range. Production for the July-March period was 277,000 boe/d, down by 8pc from 300,000 boe/d during the same period in 2019-20.