双语新闻：中石油誓在页岩气产量上追赶中石化

2014-09-04 15:33:55来源：可可英语

　　Chinese oil company PetroChina vowed to catch upwith its arch-rival Sinopec in shale gas productionnext year, as the two race to meet a governmentmandate to increase output of the fuel that hasrevolutionised the US energy sector.

　　中国石油天然气股份有限公司(PetroChina，简称：中石油)立志明年在页岩气产量方面赶上主要对手中国石油化工股份有限公司(Sinopec，简称：中石化)。这两家公司都急于实现中国政府提高页岩气产量的要求。

　　Beijing’s planners have looked with envy on the flowof cheap gas that has lowered US energy prices andreduced that country’s dependence on imports. But similar success has so far eluded China, inpart because of a more complicated geology and less developed legal and pipelineinfrastructure, but also, critics say, because the dominant state owned oil companies weredragging their feet.

　　页岩气是一种非常规化石燃料，它已彻底改变美国能源业的格局。这种廉价的天然气不但降低了美国的能源价格，还帮该国减少了对能源进口的依赖，令中国政府的经济规划者羡慕不已。但中国迄今在这方面却没有取得类似成就。一个原因在于，中国地质状况更为复杂、法律和管道基础设施也不那么发达;批评人士认为，还有一个原因是，占市场主导地位的国有油企“拖后腿”。

　　Sinopec has so far taken the lead, trumpeting its initial success at the Fuling field insouthwestern Sichuan province. It plans to produce 5bn cubic metres (bcm) there by the endof 2015, accounting for the lion’s share of the national target of 6.5 bcm next year.

　　中石化目前在中国页岩气领域占据领先位置，它对自己在四川涪陵区块取得的初步成果作了高调宣传。中石化拟到2015年底时在涪陵区块建成50亿立方米的产能，在明年全国65亿立方米的目标产能中占据最大份额。

　　“Our shale gas development is about a year and a half behind Sinopec,” Wang Dongjin,PetroChina vice-chairman, said on Thursday, adding that the company’s attention had beendistracted by work at its Moxi natural gasfield in southwestern China.

　　中石油副董事长汪东进周四表示，公司的页岩气发展较中石化晚了约一年半时间。他补充说，位于西南地区的磨溪气田的工作也分散了中石油的注意力。

　　PetroChina’s management has been decimated by a corruption investigation that has ensnaredformer energy and security tsar Zhou Yongkang; while both companies have been galvanisedby reformers’ threats to shake up the energy sector that they dominate.

　　中国政府最近掀起一场反腐败调查，给中石油管理层造成沉重打击，前能源和安全“沙皇”周永康也因此倒台。与此同时，改革派人士威胁要改造中石油和中石化主导的国内能源业，对这两家公司也造成了震动。

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