荷兰宣布正式关闭格罗宁根天然气田

  据油价网6月23日报道，荷兰矿务部长汉斯·维尔布里夫在上周五确认，格罗宁根天然气田将于今年10月1日停产，并于明年10月永久关闭。

根据维尔布里夫所言，这些天然气田将在今年10月1日停产，但为了防止在寒冷的冬天出现能源短缺情况，这些天然气田将在明年10月之前继续保持运营状态。但是从明年10月开始，这些天然气田将永久关闭并进行设施拆除。

几年前，该国同意逐步停止在该地提取天然气，但在过去两个冬季的能源危机中，天然气价格上涨引发了有关该地能否将这些天然气田继续运营一段时间的猜测。

如今，荷兰确认将在今年10月之后将这些天然气田运营时间延长一年。

在过去几十年里，政府从天然气收入中获得了相当于今天的3600亿欧元。另外，660亿欧元的收入则流向了壳牌和埃克森美孚等石油和天然气公司。壳牌和埃克森美孚于2013年被告知必须开始减少产量并做好完全关闭该气田的准备工作。

截至2019年，格罗宁根天然气田已经连续开采了半个多世纪，并为荷兰98%的人口供应天然气。

胡耀东 译自 油价网

原文如下：

The Netherlands Announces Official Closing Of Groningen Gas Fields

The Groningen gas fields will be turned off on October 1 of this year, and permanently close next October, The Netherlands Minister of Mines confirmed on Friday.

According to Netherlands Mines Minister Hans Vijlbrief, the fields, set to shut down on October 1, will remain in operational status for another year just in case the country finds itself on the energy backfoot with an exceptionally cold winter, Vijlbrief said. But as of next October, the gas fields will be closed permanently and dismantled.

Vijlbrief cited years of problems with the fields.

The country agreed to phase out gas extraction in the province a couple of years ago that were thought to be associated with natural gas extraction. But rising gas prices amid the energy crunch over the last two winters gave rise to speculation that the province could keep the fields operational for a little while longer.

Today, the Netherlands confirmed that it will keep the fields operational for a year past this October.

Over the last couple of decades, while the government raked in the equivalent of €360 billion in today’s money from gas revenues. Another €66 billion went to the oil and gas companies, Shell and Exxon. Shell and Exxon were told back in 2013 that they had to begin reducing output and gear up for shutting the field down completely.

Groningen in the north of the Netherlands has been pumping gas for more than half a century and supplied gas to 98 percent of the Dutch population as of 2019.