中国石化新闻网讯 据道琼斯3月9日消息，BMI研究公司警告称，液化天然气（LNG）需求的快速增长，可能会让全球LNG市场在本世纪20年代中期陷入供应短缺的困境，因为缺乏对新产能的投资阻碍了近年来的供应激增。BMI研究公司预计，今年全球LNG市场将出现轻微的供应过剩，2019年供应过剩程度将大幅增加，2022年全球LNG供应过剩的情况将达到顶峰，然后供应将开始趋紧。尽管在北美、撒哈拉以南非洲、俄罗斯、卡塔尔和巴布亚新几内亚都有大量的计划中的LNG项目，可以填补预期的供应缺口，但BMI表示，很多项目将难以在当前的市场条件下做出最终投资决定。

张春晓 摘译自 道琼斯

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LNG Supply Crunch Looms in Mid-2020s

Rapid growth in demand for liquefied natural gas threatens to tip the global market into a deficit in the mid-2020s as a lack of investment in new production capacity chokes off supply that has surged in recent years, BMI Research warns. The market is set for a small surplus this year that will grow significantly in 2019 before peaking in 2022 and then tightening, it forecasts. And while there is a big pipeline of LNG projects in North America, sub-Saharan Africa, Russia, Qatar and Papua New Guinea that could plug the expected supply gap, BMI says many will struggle to make it to a final investment decision in the current market conditions.