据油气新闻网6月12日报道，近日，坦桑尼亚与挪威国家石油公司Equinor和英国壳牌签署了一项框架协议，该协议将加快建设一个价值300亿美元的液化天然气出口终端。

据该国能源部长January Makamba表示，该协议的签署将为2025年对该设施做出最终投资决定铺平道路，由于监管部门的拖延，该项目在坦桑尼亚南部沿海深水区发现的巨大海上天然气储量附近的建设已被搁置多年。

壳牌驻坦桑尼亚副总裁兼董事会主席科尔在仪式上表示，我们相信坦桑尼亚具有优势，因为该国具有战略位置和提供有竞争力和可投资项目的机会。

Equinor曾在2021年对该项目进行了9.82亿美元的减记，当时该公司认为该项目盈利能力不足。该公司在一份声明中表示，现在说是否会因为周六宣布的交易而逆转减记还为时过早。

Equinor和壳牌，以及埃克森美孚、Ophir能源和Pavilion能源，计划在该国的林迪地区建造液化天然气工厂。

Equinor经营坦桑尼亚的2号区块，埃克森美孚也持有该区块的股份，该区块估计拥有超过20万亿立方英尺（0.6万亿立方米）的天然气。

Equinor计划与壳牌合作开展液化天然气项目，壳牌运营1号和4号区块，估计可采天然气储量为16万亿立方英尺。

坦桑尼亚已经将其发现的一些天然气用于发电和运营制造工厂。其还计划建造一家化肥厂。

政府估计该国的可采天然气总量为57.54万亿立方英尺。

郝芬 译自 油气新闻网

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Tanzania signs LNG framework agreement with Equinor and shell

Tanzania signed a framework agreement with Norway's Equinor and Britain's Shell that will bring closer the start of construction of a $30 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal.

Energy Minister January Makamba said the signing would pave the way for a final investment decision in 2025 on the facility, construction of which near huge offshore natural gas discoveries in deep waters off Tanzania's southern coast has been held up for years by regulatory delays.

Jared Kuehl, Shell's vice president and board chairman in Tanzania, said at the ceremony: "We believe Tanzania has advantages because it has(a) strategic location and the opportunity to deliver a competitive and investable project."

Equinor, which had in 2021 booked a $982 million writedown on the project having decided it would not be sufficiently profitably, said in a statement it was too early to say whether it would reverse that writedown as a result of the deal announced on Saturday.

Equinor and Shell, along with Exxon Mobil, Ophir Energy and Pavilion Energy, plan to build the LNG plant in the country's Lindi region.

Equinor operates Tanzania's Block 2, in which Exxon Mobil also holds a stake and which is estimated to hold more than 20 trillion cubic feet (0.6 trillion cubic metres) of gas.

Equinor aims to work on the LNG project with Shell, which operates Block 1 and Block 4, with 16 trillion cubic feet in estimated recoverable gas.

Tanzania already uses some of its natural gas discoveries for power generation and to run manufacturing plants. It also plans to build a fertiliser plant.

The government has put the country's total estimated recoverable gas at 57.54 trillion cubic feet.