据美国油价网2022年6月21日报道，伊拉克副总理Ali Allawi表示，伊拉克可能在未来五年内把本国石油日产能提高到600万桶，但不会超过这个水平，因为伊拉克石油行业的扩张受到了限制。
伊拉克是欧佩克第二大产油国，但它一直在努力提高产量，以符合欧佩克去年签署的增产协议，增产协议是在疫情后需求开始复苏以后签署的。
根据欧佩克最新的月度石油市场报告，伊拉克5月份原油日产量约为440万桶，低于4月的442.6万桶。5月份的原油平均产量也低于伊拉克去年第四季度的产量。在疫情导致需求锐减并促使欧佩克及其合作伙伴大幅减产之前，伊拉克的原油日产量约为450万桶。
尽管伊拉克面临不少政治问题，石油投资前景堪忧，但伊拉克仍雄心勃勃，希望到2027年前，伊拉克原油日产量能达到800万桶。
伊拉克副总理Ali Allawi表示：“我不认为我们在五年内将原油日产能扩大100万桶以上。”根据他的说法，600万桶原油日产能是一个更现实的产能扩张目标。
与此同时，大型石油公司正在撤离伊拉克，这是伊拉克石油行业增长前景不确定的原因之一。本周早些时候，有消息称，伊拉克国有的巴士拉石油公司将收购埃克森美孚公司在西古尔纳-1油田的股份。美国这家石油巨头时下正在寻求退出伊拉克。
与此同时，在全球需求不断增长的情况下，伊拉克也在扩大液化天然气业务。就在本周，伊拉克宣布从乌姆盖斯尔港装运第一批出口液化天然气。伊拉克还计划出口半冷却压缩液化天然气。
李峻 编译自 美国油价网
原文如下：
Iraq Could Raise Oil Production Capacity To 6 Million Bpd
Iraq could raise its oil production capacity to 6 million bpd over the next five years but no more than that because of constraints weighing on the industry’s expansion, the Deputy Prime Minister of the country, Ali Allawi, said, as quoted by Energy Intelligence, this week.
Iraq is OPEC’s second-largest producer, but it has been struggling to boost production in line with the OPEC+ production expansion agreement that the extended cartel inked last year after demand began to recover after the pandemic.
Per OPEC’s latest Monthly Oil Market Report, Iraq produced some 4.4 million bpd in May, down from 4.426 million bpd in April. The May average production rate was also lower than Iraq’s production rate for the last quarter of 2021. Before the pandemic decimated demand and prompted OPEC and its partners to cut production severely, Iraq was pumping some 4.5 million bpd.
Despite political troubles and doubts about the future of investments in Iraq’s oil, the country’s Oil Minister, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar Ismail, has the ambition to see production capacity at as much as 8 million barrels daily by 2027.
“I don’t think we’ll be expanding our capacity beyond … another 1 million b/d within five years,” his deputy, Allawi, said. According to him, 6 million bpd was a more realistic target for production capacity expansion.
Meanwhile, Big Oil is leaving Iraq, which is one of the reasons for the uncertainty of its oil industry growth’s future. Earlier this week, the news broke that state-owned Basrah Oil Company will buy Exxon’s stake in the West Qurna 1 oil field as the supermajor seeks to exit Iraq.
Meanwhile, Iraq is also expanding into LNG amid growing global demand. Just this week, the country announced the first shipment of liquefied gas from the port of Umm Qasr. Plans are to also export compressed and semi-cooled liquefied gas.
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