据世界能源3月4日消息：2021年，通过天然气分销公司的国内天然气消费量增至7600万立方米/天(27亿立方英尺/天)，其中热电需求同比增长52%，达到3390万立方米/天。

各行业用气量均有所增长，工业、汽车和商业领域的用气量均增长15%，分别达到2950万立方米/天、590万立方米/天和78.3万立方米/天。去年家庭消费增加2.7%至140万立方米/天。

Abegas总裁Augusto Salomon表示，热电消耗的增加证实了天然气对巴西电力安全的重要性，并强调了降低该国回注水平以防范国际价格波动的重要性。气体回注使油井重新加压以增加石油产量。

Salomon表示:“巴西盐下蕴藏着巨大的天然气储量，但已经回注了其产量的近一半。这个国家不能听任进口摆布。”

他表示，天然气回注量已超过6000万立方米/天，相当于巴西工业消费量的两倍。

12月，工业、汽车、商业和家庭的天然气消费量也同比增长，分别增长了5.3%、19%、15%和5.7%。

另一方面，随着雨季临近，热电需求比去年12月下降了29%，平均消耗量为27,208立方米/天。

冯娟 摘译自 世界能源

原文如下：

Brazil 2021 Gas Demand up 29pc as Thermal Jumps

Total domestic gas consumption through gas distribution companies in 2021 rose to 76mn m3/d (2.7 Bcf/d), led by thermo-electric demand that rose from the prior year by 52pc to 33.9mn m3/d.

Gas consumption in all sectors grew, with demand from the industrial, vehicular, and commercial sectors all rising by 15pc to 29.5mn m3/d, 5.9mn m3/d and 783,000 m3/d, respectively. Household consumption last year increased by 2.7pc to 1.4mn m3/d.

Abegas president Augusto Salomon said the increase in thermo-electric consumption confirms the importance of natural gas for Brazil's power security and highlights the importance of lowering reinjection levels in the country to protect against international price volatility. Gas reinjection repressurizes wells for increased oil production.

"Brazil has huge reserves of natural gas in the pre-salt but has been reinjecting almost half of what it produces," Salomon said. "The country cannot be at the mercy" of imports."

Gas reinjection has exceeded 60mn m3/d, equivalent to twice Brazil's industrial consumption, he said.

In December, natural gas consumption also rose year-over-year in the industrial, vehicular, commercial and household sectors, gaining 5.3pc, 19pc, 15pc and 5.7pc, respectively.

Thermoelectric demand, on the other hand, decreased by 29pc compared to the previous December, with the approach of the rainy season cutting consumption to an average 27,208 m3/d.