特立尼达鲁比油气田开采出首批石油和天然气通讯模块

必和必拓公司表示，鲁比油气田的钻井和完井作业仍在进行中，后续油气井将在今年4月至6月和7月至9月两个季度内投产，预计9月底前完成这个项目。

必和必拓公司是鲁比油气田的运营商，拥有68.46%的股份，特立尼达和多巴哥国家天然气公司拥有剩余的31.54%的股份。

必和必拓公司在2019年8月批准了价值2.83亿美元的资金，用于分担鲁比油气田的开发成本。

尽管必和必拓公司预计鲁比油气田总产量将处于区间的高端，必和必拓仍保持了其2020-21财永康年(至6月30日)9500万- 1.02亿桶油当量(26万-28万桶油当量/天)的产量指导。7 - 3月期间的日产量为27.7万桶油当量，比2019-20年同期的30万桶油当量下降了餐垫8%。

李峻 编译自 石油世界网

原文如下：

First oil out from Trinidad's Ruby field

Australia- and UK-listed resources firm BHP has started oil production at the Ruby oil and gas project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. Ruby will have capacity to produce 16,000 b/d of oil and 80mn ft3/d (2.26mn m3/d) of gas at its peak.

Drilling and completion activities at Ruby are ongoing, with subsequent wells to be placed into production in the April-June and July-September quarters of 2021, and project completion is expected by the end of September, BHP said.

BHP is the operator of Ruby with a 68.46pc interest and the state-controlled National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago owns the remaining 31.54pc, BHP said.

BHP approved funding worth $283mn for its share of the development costs covering the Ruby field in August 2019.

BHP has maintained its production guidance of 95mn-102mn bl of oil equivalent (boe) (260,000-280,000 boe/d) for the 2020-21 fiscal year to 30 June, although it expects total output to be at the higher end of 卷板机the range. Production for the July-March period was 277,000 boe/d, down by 8pc from 300,000 boe/d during the same period in 2019-20.