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来源：百度知道 编辑：UC知道 时间：2024/05/27 07:16:38
Oil and gas companies are flush with profits, so they could afford it. Exxon Mobil alone earned nearly $10 billion in the third quarter, a record for any U.S. firm. But companies seem more inclined to buy one another's assets and invest in proven reserves than go hunting for new sources. Conoco Phillips recently bid $35.6 billion for Burlington Resources, one of the world's largest natural-gas producers. In the contiguous 48 states, easily accessible fields are running full tilt. "We've had great success finding new reserves, but these are unconventional sources--low-permeability gas sands, shale gas, coal-bed methane," says Peter Dea, CEO of Western Gas Resources, a Denver-based gas producer. Longer term, more supplies are on the way. The U.S. Interior Department last week opened for exploration 389,000 acres of Alaskan tundra and shoreline, which officials estimate may contain 3.5 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. Yet that's a pittance compared with the 22.3

石油和天然气公司正在冲水的利润，使他们能够负担得起。埃克森美孚仅赢得近100亿美元，第三季度创纪录的任何美国公司。但公司似乎更倾向于购买对方的资产和投资的探明储量比去打猎的新来源。康菲公司最近收购3560000万美元的柏灵顿资源之一，世界上最大的天然气生产商。在48个州，容易领域运行的是充分倾斜。 “我们已经取得了巨大成功寻找新的储量，但这些非常规的来源-低渗透油气砂，页岩天然气，煤层气， ”彼得德亚说，西方的C EO油气资源，一个总部位于丹佛的天然气生产商。长远来说，更多的供应的方式。美国内政部上周开幕的勘探三十八万九千英亩的阿拉斯加苔原和海岸线，其中官员估计，可能含有3.5万亿立方米。英尺的天然气。然而，这是一个比较微薄的二十二万三点零零亿立方米。英尺的中美消费在2004年。这两个项目和运输天然气从阿拉斯加北坡和加拿大的领土中。一项建议涉及建立一个200亿美元的管道到芝加哥，但需要用10年时间才能完成。