据世界石油5月17日消息称，加拿大艾伯塔省省长肯尼表示，加拿大石油产量可能增加90万桶/天。

肯尼说，北美管道系统每天约有30万桶未使用的产能，今年应通过增产来填补。另外还有20万桶原油可以通过铁路运输，“如果中游公司认真对待这个问题，并且监管机构批准了它”，还可以通过管道回流和技术改进再增加40万桶原油。

以这样的速度提高加拿大的石油产量不会很快发生。根据美国能源信息署的数据，今年前两个月，加拿大每天向美国出口约390万桶原油，占该国产量的大部分。

肯尼在接受彭博电视采访时表示，到2024年，通往不列颠哥伦比亚省的跨山管道扩建项目的完成将使加拿大有更多的能力将石油运往美国。“我的观点是，我们需要在这个问题上有远见。让我们建立一个北美能源联盟，我们完成另一条主要管道的建设，因为我们在艾伯塔有地球上第三大储量。”

曹海斌 摘译自 世界石油

原文如下：

Canada can boost oil output by 900,000 barrels a day, Kenney says

Canada’s oil production could increase by 900,000 barrels a day, according to the premier of the province of Alberta.

about 300,000 barrels a day of unused capacity exists in the North American pipeline system, which should be filled this year through higher output, Kenney said. Another 200,000 barrels of crude oil could be shipped by rail and “if midstream companies get serious about it, and if regulators approve it,” a further 400,000 barrels could be added through pipeline reversals and technical improvements.

Boosting Canada’s oil output by that amount would not happen quickly. Canada exported about 3.9 million barrels a day of crude oil to the U.S. in the first two months of the year, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration -- the bulk of the country’s production.

By 2024, the completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project to British Columbia will give Canada even more capacity to ship oil to the US, Kenney said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “My point is, let’s be visionary about this. Let’s have a North American energy alliance, and let’s get another major pipeline done because we’ve got the third-largest reserves on Earth up in Alberta,” he said.