纳米比亚与法国大型能源公司TotalEnergies SE仍在就该公司在维纳斯油田的发现进行开发条款的谈判，这使得实现2030年前首次投产的目标的时间更为紧迫。
Namibia and TotalEnergies SE are still negotiating terms for the development of the French major’s Venus oil discovery, leaving less time to meet a target of first production by 2030.
TotalEnergies在四月表示，计划在今年作出最终投资决定，尽管与政府的谈判仍未解决。该公司此前的目标是2025年批准该项目。
Total in April said it was aiming for a final investment decision this year, though talks with the government remain unresolved. The company had previously targeted 2025 for sanctioning the project.
纳米比亚总统府上游石油部门负责人、特别顾问Kornelia Shilunga在接受采访时证实，讨论仍在进行中。她未透露今年是否可能作出投资决定。“这要问Total，”她说。
The discussions are continuing, Kornelia Shilunga, special adviser and head of the upstream petroleum unit in the Namibian Presidency confirmed in an interview. She declined to say whether an investment decision was likely this year. “That’s a question for Total,” she said.
TotalEnergies首席执行官Patrick Pouyanné上月表示，他“乐观地认为所有人都希望”该项目能够推进，公司正致力于在未来几个月实现这一目标。公司发言人在周二被问及此事时引用了上述言论。
Total Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanné last month said he’s “optimistic everybody wants” the project to proceed and the company was working toward that goal in the coming months. A spokesperson referred to those remarks when asked for comment on Tuesday.
在TotalEnergies和壳牌公司首次发现后，南部非洲国家海域已成为该大陆的勘探热点。英国石油公司、雪佛龙公司等其他国际石油巨头也纷纷进入该地区油区块。
After initial discoveries by TotalEnergies and Shell Plc, the waters offshore the southern African nation have become an exploration hotspot on the continent. BP Plc, Chevron Corp. and other international oil majors have piled into oil blocks there.
纳米比亚人口约300万，完成开发后将首次成为石油生产国。这需要时间，原本计划在本十年末抽油的愿景可能被推迟至2030年代后期才开始。
Namibia, with a population of about 3 million, will become an oil producer for the first time once development is complete. That’s taking time and pushed aspirations of pumping crude by the end of the decade to potentially starting later in the 2030s.
TotalEnergies高级副总裁Mike Sangster于10月12日在开普敦的一次会议上表示：“当你进入一个没有碳氢化合物历史的新国家时，当地政府和国家石油公司需要进行大量学习。”他未指明具体是哪国。
“When you go into a new country that doesn’t have a hydrocarbon history, there’s a lot of learning to be done by the local authorities, by the national oil company,” Mike Sangster, a senior vice president at Total, said Oct. 12 at a conference in Cape Town, without identifying a specific country.
他说：“如果东道国能够快速决策，也确实有助于我们以合适的节奏推进，避免在作出最终投资决定、完善监管、财政体系等方面耗费过多时间。”
“It really helps as well to have a quick decision-making process in the host country so that we can move ahead at the right pace, avoid too much time to take FID, finalize regulations fiscal systems and so on,” he said.
道达尔在纳米比亚近海拥有大量业务，并以吕德里茨港作为基地。该公司计划在2028年之前，就开发位于另一个区块的莫帕尼发现做出决定。维纳斯油田预计每天将生产约16万桶石油。
Total has a significant presence offshore Namibia and uses the port of Luderitz as a base. It plans to make a decision on developing the Mopane discovery, located in another block, by 2028. Venus is expected to produce about 160,000 barrels of oil a day.