据普氏能源资讯2019年4月3日,休斯敦报道，哥伦比亚国家油气管理局（NHA）日前与哥伦比亚国家石油公司（Ecopetrol）、西班牙雷普索尔公司和美国埃克森美孚公司签署了两份海上区块的上游合同，这是哥伦比亚为提高其日益减少的石油产量而采取的最新举措。
根据标普全球普氏能源资讯分析部门的的统计数据，哥伦比亚目前的原油日产量不到90万桶，低于2015年的100万桶。
公共政策智库美洲研究所负责能源和可持续发展的副总裁杰里米·马丁表示，最近有关上游交易的消息“表明上届哥伦比亚政府创造的休眠状态已经正式结束。如今公司已经准备好。政府完全参与其中，政府看到夺取/重启石油行业和上游投资的好处。”
普氏能源资讯分析师Bill Fuller表示：“从方向上看，这两份海上合同以及我们预计将签署的其他合同支持我们的观点，即哥伦比亚最终将从海上开采原油。这仍然是高度不确定的，因为到目前为止哥伦比亚海上只发现了天然气。”
Fuller表示，哥伦比亚陆上常规原油产量“几乎不可能回到从前的峰值”。他说：“哥伦比亚陆上常规油田往往规模较小，而且稠油较多，因此开采起来相对昂贵。这就是哥伦比亚寻求海上租赁和陆上页岩气开采的原因。”
李 峻 编译自 普氏能源资讯
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Colombia inks offshore oil deals deals with Ecopetrol, Repsol, ExxonMobil
Colombia's National Hydrocarbons Agency has inked upstream contracts with state-controlled oil company Ecopetrol, Spain's Repsol and ExxonMobil for two offshore blocks, the latest move by the country to boost its waning oil production.
Colombia currently produces just shy of 900,000 b/d of crude, down from 1 million b/d in 2015, according to S&P Global Platts Analytics, which forecasts output rising to roughly 925,000 b/d in 2020.
News of recent upstream deals "shows that the dormancy created by the last administration is officially over," said Jeremy Martin, vice president of energy and sustainability at Institute of the Americas, a public policy think tank. "Companies are ready to go. The government is fully engaged and the administration sees the upside to seizing/rebooting the oil sector and upstream investment."
"Directionally, these two contracts for offshore and other contracts we expect to be signed support our view that there eventually will be Colombian crude production from offshore," said Platts Analytics analyst Bill Fuller. "This is still highly uncertain as only gas has been discovered so far."
Colombia's onshore conventional crude production has "little chance of returning to its former peak," Fuller said. "Colombia's onshore conventional oil fields tend to be small and heavy oil which make them relatively expensive. This is why Colombia is pursuing offshore leasing and fracking onshore shale deposits.
