据马来西亚国家石油有限公司称，液化天然气价格飙升有可能摧毁对这种超冷燃料的需求，并引发全球市场的“大屠杀”。首席执行官穆罕默德·陶菲克。
LNG prices risk destroying demand for the super-chilled fuel and triggering a “bloodbath” in global markets, according to Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd. Chief Executive Officer Muhammad Taufik.
陶菲克周一在伦敦能源情报论坛间隙告诉记者，今年冬天液化天然气市场“将是一个非常、非常、非常紧张的市场”，特别是如果欧洲的天然气储存在冬季之前处于多年低点的话“受到更多损害”。
The LNG market “is going to be a very, very, very, very tight market” this winter, particularly if Europe’s gas storage that’s at a multi-year low ahead of winter season “gets more compromised,” Taufik told reporters Monday on the sidelines of the Energy Intelligence Forum in London.
他表示，当现货价格飙升开始削弱长期需求时，“我们希望避免液化天然气市场出现大屠杀的情况”。
“We want to avoid a situation where we have a bloodbath in LNG markets,” when soaring spot prices begin to chip away at longer-term demand, he said.
亚洲是全球许多最大液化天然气买家的所在地，在伊朗战争和霍尔木兹海峡接近关闭导致运输中断后，亚洲正面临近年来最大的供应冲击之一。这种中断可能会加剧与欧洲对美国和其他地区替代供应的竞争，欧洲天然气库存处于2009年以来的最低水平。
Asia, home to many of the world’s largest LNG buyers, is facing one of its biggest supply shocks in recent years after the war in Iran and near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz choked off shipments. The disruption threatens to intensify competition with Europe, where gas inventories are at their lowest since 2009, for alternative supplies from the US and elsewhere.
据国际能源署称，亚太地区拥有约380亿立方米的地下天然气储存容量，主要位于中国，并且更加依赖液化天然气储罐储存。欧洲拥有约1500亿立方米的地下容量，其中约70%位于欧盟。
Asia-Pacific has about 38 billion cubic meters of underground gas storage capacity, mostly in China, and relies more heavily on LNG tank storage, according to the International Energy Agency. Europe has about 150 billion cubic meters of underground capacity, roughly 70% of it in the European Union.
陶菲克说，亚洲买家每百万英国热量单位支付约25至28美元购买液化天然气“还没有退缩”。“我不知道它会停在哪里，如果它达到40到50美元，人们可能会开始转向其他不太可持续，不太负责任的能源形式。“我们不希望需求遭到破坏，”陶菲克说。
Asian buyers paying about $25 to $28 per million British thermal units for LNG “aren’t flinching yet,” Taufik said. “And I don’t know where it stops, and if it hits $40 to $50, people may start switching to other less sustainable, less responsible” forms of energy. “We don’t want demand destructed,” Taufik said.
亚洲对进口能源的严重依赖，使其特别容易受到中东冲突的影响。陶菲克早些时候在论坛期间表示，一些国家以前从中东采购了约60%至70%的液化天然气进口。
Asia’s heavy reliance on imported energy has left it particularly exposed to the Middle East conflict. Some countries previously sourced about 60% to 70% of their LNG imports from the Middle East, Taufik said earlier during the forum.
他呼吁开放更多勘探面积并开发足够的新供应，而不仅仅是抵消现有油田的下降。
He called for opening more acreage to exploration and developing enough new supply to do more than simply offset declines at existing fields.
陶菲克在会上表示：“我不太确定亚洲在2027年之后是否能够保持弹性，至少因为日本和中国等一些更有先见之明的国家没有那么丰富的储备或储备来建立其SPR。”
“I’m not so sure Asia is going to be able to be resilient beyond 2027, at least because there’s not the wealth of reserves or storage that some of the more prescient nations such as Japan and China will build up their SPRs,” Taufik said at the session.