据美国彭博新闻社2022年5月17日报道，刚果（金）日前表示，计划拍卖的16个石油区块的石油储量估计为160亿桶，按当前价格计算，价值超过6500亿美元。
总部位于得克萨斯州的GeoSigmoid收集的上述初步数据仍需进一步勘探和“发现具有经济效益的油气田”来确认。这一估计是基于35%的石油采收率和每桶107美元的平均价格。
16个区块将在7月28日和29日在刚果（金）首都金沙萨进行拍卖。根据Budimbu的数据，坦噶尼喀山谷沿线的4个区块预计拥有72.5亿桶石油储量，而位于中央盆地的9个区块估计拥有64亿桶的石油储量。靠近大西洋海岸的Ndunda区块石油储量估计为1.3亿桶，而Nganzi区块储量估计为20亿桶，Yema/Matamba-Makanzi区块储量估计为8亿桶。
刚果（金）是撒哈拉以南非洲大陆面积最大的国家，拥有巨大的潜在石油储量，但刚果目前在大西洋沿岸由法国佩朗哥石油公司控制的老化石油区块的石油日产量只有2.5万桶左右。
虽然这些区块有可能为刚果（金）这个今年预算预计为111亿美元的贫困国家带来收入，但拍卖提议引发了环保人士的担忧，他们担心开放大片雨林和世界上最大的泥炭地进行勘探。刚果（金）石油部在一段视频中表示，这些区块是“精心”选择的，并考虑到了该国保护区的敏感性。
李峻 编译自 美国彭博新闻社
原文如下：
$650B Worth of Oil Reserves Being Auctioned in Congo
Oil blocks that the Democratic Republic of Congo plans to auction have reserves estimated at 16 billion barrels that would be worth more than $650 billion at current prices.
Preliminary data compiled by Texas-based GeoSigmoid still need to be confirmed by further exploration and “the discovery of economically profitable hydrocarbon deposits”. The estimates are based on an oil recovery rate of 35% and an average price of $107 a barrel.
The 16 blocks will go on tender on July 28 and 29 in Kinshasa, the capital. The four blocks along the Tanganyika valley are forecast to have 7.25 billion barrels of reserves while the nine offered in the Cuvette Centrale, or central basin, have an estimated 6.4 billion barrels, according to Budimbu. The Ndunda block near the Atlantic coast has an estimated 130 million barrels, while Nganzi potentially has 2 billion barrels, and Yema/Matamba-Makanzi 800 million barrels, he said.
Congo is the largest country by landmass in sub-Saharan Africa with significant potential oil reserves but its current production is only about 25,000 barrels per day from aging oil blocks controlled by France’s Perenco SA on the Atlantic Ocean coast.
While the blocks have potential to generate revenue in an impoverished nation whose budget for this year is projected at $11.1 billion, the tender offers have sparked concern among environmentalists over opening Congo’s massive rainforests and the world’s largest peatlands to exploration. The oil ministry said in a video presentation that the blocks were chosen “meticulously” and take into account the sensitivity of the country’s protected areas.
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