原标题：沙科中立区原油日产量年底前有望超过55万桶
中国石化新闻网讯 据原油新闻2020年4月9日报道，科威特石油部长哈立德·法德尔9日在一次采访中告诉标普全球普氏能源咨询记者，最近重新开放的由沙特阿拉伯和科威特共同拥有的中立区的原油产量已经提前加大，中立区原油日产量年底前应该超过55万桶，达到5年前中立区关闭时的总产量。
法德尔说，科威特在中立区哈夫吉油田的原油产量份额目前约为每天7万桶，而科威特在沃夫拉油田的原油产量份额为每天6万桶。由于沙科两国平均分配中立区油田的产量，这意味着位于中立区这两个油田的原油总产量约为26万桶/天。
法德尔表示：“我们认为，到今年年底前，中立区原油日产量将达到甚至超过55万桶，这是我们之前的目标。随着新技术、新研究和新勘探技术的出现，我们实际上在寻求更多的原油产量。”
去年12月，科威特和沙特阿拉伯达成了一项协议，重新开放这些油田。
2014年关闭的海上哈夫吉油田由沙特阿拉伯国家石油公司旗下的阿美海湾作业公司和国有科威特石油公司旗下的科威特海湾石油公司共同拥有。
李峻 编译自 原油新闻
原文如下：
Neutral Zone crude output could surpass 550,000 b/d by year-end
Crude production in the recently reopened Neutral Zone shared by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait has ramped up ahead of schedule and by year-end should surpass the 550,000 b/d that it totaled prior to its closure some five years ago, Kuwaiti oil minister Khaled al-Fadhel told S&P Global Platts in an interview.
Kuwait's share of production at the Al-Khafji field is currently around 70,000 b/d, while the Kuwaiti share of Wafra field production is 60,000 b/d, he said. Since the two countries split output from the fields evenly, that implies that total production from the Neutral Zone is around 260,000 b/d.
"By the end of 2020, we think it will go to even more than 550,000 b/d, which was our previous target, which we used to produce when it was healthy," the minister said. "With new technology and new research and new exploration techniques, we are actually looking for more production."
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia brokered a deal in December to reopen the fields.
The offshore Al-Khafji, shuttered since 2014, is jointly owned by Saudi Arabia's Aramco Gulf Operations Co. and Kuwait Gulf Oil Co., a unit of state-run Kuwait Petroleum Corp.
