美国墨西哥湾石油产量创历史新高

据离岸工程1月24日报道称，尽管投资大幅减少，但美国墨西哥湾石油产量仍有望在2020年再创历史新高。

根据雷斯塔能源公司的说法，这种增长大部分来自深水项目。

雷斯塔能源公司上游团队的分析师约阿希姆?米林?格雷格森表示：“预计2020年将再创纪录，石油平均日产量将超过190万桶。”

自2013年以来，墨西哥湾的石油产量每年都在增长，平均每天增加104,000桶。其中一项重要贡献来自Mars、 Thunder Horse 和 Tahiti等传统生产油田的加密钻探。

到目前为止，2019年供应增长的最大贡献者是Big Foot和Crosby油田。但是，到今年年底，预计Appomattox油田将通过提高其产量使之达到每日17.5万桶油当量而产生重大影响。

从2015年以来的发现量来看，墨西哥湾是全球第二大最具勘探前景的近海地区，仅次于圭亚那。过去五年在墨西哥湾发现的总资源储量达50.3亿桶油当量，价值估计为19亿美元。

徐蕾 摘译自 离岸工程

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GoM Oil Output Set for Record Year

The U.S. Gulf of Mexico is positioned for another year of record oil production in 2020, despite massive cuts in investment.

According to Rystad Energy, most of this growth coming from deep water projects.

“2020 is expected to be another record year with average production above 1.9 million barrels per day,” says Joachim Milling Gregersen, an analyst on Rystad Energy’s upstream team.

Oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has grown every year since 2013, with an average of 104,000 barrels per day added annually. An essential contribution has come from infill drilling in legacy producing fields such as Mars, Thunder Horse and Tahiti.

The top contributors to supply growth in 2019 have so far been the Big Foot and Crosby fields. However, by the end of the year the Appomattox field is expected to make a significant impact by ramping up towards its processing capacity of 175,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd).

In terms of discoveries since 2015, the Gulf of Mexico has been the world’s second most prospective offshore region, trailing only Guyana. The collective resources discovered in the Gulf of Mexico over the past five years amount to 5.03 billion barrels of boe, with an estimated value of $1.9 billion.