据世界油气网消息，在未来几周内，巴林预计将首次进口液化天然气（LNG），成为中东第五个进口液化天然气的国家。巴林进口液化天然气终端的产能为每天8亿立方英尺，并将利用一个海上浮动储存装置和一个单独的再气化平台，通过海底管道连接到位于哈利法本萨勒曼港的陆上接收设施。一艘名为“Bahrain Spirit”的FSU船，可储存大约17.3万立方米（8立方英尺/天），将按照20年的租期服务于该项目。
该项目的液化天然气供应将在全球现货市场进行采购，以补充现有的国内生产，直到最近发现的哈利吉巴林（Khalij al Bahrain 2）近海油气田投产。尽管巴林的国内天然气产量近年来有所增长，但大部分增长都是用于回注的非市场生产，以维持老化的巴林油田（该油田自1932年以来一直在生产油气）的产量水平。
液化天然气进口将用于满足巴林日益增长的天然气需求，这些需求主要来自工业部门。巴林液化天然气将向两个新的联合循环天然气发电厂供应天然气，这两座电厂计划于2019年至2020年投入运行，并预计将在2022年建成一座新的炼油厂。其中一个天然气发电厂（1.8千兆瓦）将用于向一个扩大的铝冶炼厂提供电力，预计该冶炼厂将是世界上最大的单一地点冶炼厂。
詹晓晶 摘自 世界油气网
原文如下：
Bahrain is on track to begin LNG imports this spring
In the next few weeks, Bahrain is expected to receive its first import of liquefied natural gas (LNG), becoming the fifth country in the Middle East to import LNG. The Bahrain LNG import terminal will have a capacity of 0.8 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) and will utilize an offshore floating storage unit (FSU) and a separate regasification platform connected via undersea pipelines to an onshore receiving facility located in the Khalifa bin Salman Port. An FSU vessel called Bahrain Spirit, with a storage capacity of approximately 173,000 cubic meters (0.8 Bcf/d), will serve the project under 20-year term charter.
LNG supply for the project will be procured in the global spot market to supplement existing domestic production until new production from the recently discovered offshore Khalij al Bahrain 2 oil and natural gas field comes online. Although Bahrain’s domestic natural gas production has increased in recent years, most of the increase is non-marketed production used for reinjection to maintain output levels at the country’s aging Bahrain field, which has been producing oil and natural gas since 1932.
LNG imports will be used to meet Bahrain’s growing natural gas demand, primarily from the industrial sector. Bahrain LNG will supply natural gas to two new combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plants scheduled to be in service in 2019–2020, as well a new refinery expected to come online by 2022. One of the natural gas-fired power plants (1.8 gigawatts (GW)) will be used to supply electricity to an expanded aluminum smelter, which is expected to be the largest single-site smelter in the world.
