據世界石油5月17日消息稱，加拿大艾伯塔省省長肯尼表示，加拿大石油產量可能增加90萬桶/天。

肯尼說，北美管道系統每天約有30萬桶未使用的產能，今年應通過增產來填補。另外還有20萬桶原油可以通過鐵路運輸，“如果中游公司認真對待這個問題，并且監管機構批準了它”，還可以通過管道回流和技術改進再增加40萬桶原油。

以這樣的速度提高加拿大的石油產量不會很快發生。根據美國能源信息署的數據，今年前兩個月，加拿大每天向美國出口約390萬桶原油，占該國產量的大部分。

肯尼在接受彭博電視采訪時表示，到2024年，通往不列顛哥倫比亞省的跨山管道擴建項目的完成將使加拿大有更多的能力將石油運往美國。“我的觀點是，我們需要在這個問題上有遠見。讓我們建立一個北美能源聯盟，我們完成另一條主要管道的建設，因為我們在艾伯塔有地球上第三大儲量。”

曹海斌 摘譯自 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.