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文章导读据估计，沙特阿拉伯拥有世界已探明石油储量的17% 沙特的石油公司沙特阿拉伯国家石油公司(Saudi Aramco)是全球最大的石油出口商，也是全球盈利能力最强的公司之一

 

文章导读据估计，沙特阿拉伯拥有世界已探明石油储量的17% 沙特的石油公司沙特阿拉伯国家石油公司(Saudi Aramco)是全球最大的石油出口商，也是全球盈利能力最强的公司之一穆罕默德王子曾表示，沙特的目标是在2060年前实现碳中和，初始投资超过7000亿里亚尔(合1870亿美元)。

他们正在大力投资可再生能源沙特人经常提到循环碳经济，即捕获二氧化碳，然后再利用、回收或清除它的部署在很大程度上依赖于尚未经过商业验证的技术沙特阿拉伯能源部长阿卜杜勒阿齐兹 · 本 · 萨勒曼王子在接受《时代》杂志(Time)采访时表示，尽管这样做可以抽取更多的石油，“但我们可以通过为建筑物安装绝缘材料、制定更有效的工业标准等方式，变得更有效率。

”我们可以把排放到大气中的二氧化碳作为一种有价值的产品，用于有价值的应用，比如说食品或饮料公司，这样它就变成了一种材料，而不是丢弃它”

【Para.1】Why are Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates being asked to pump more oil?Western powers are looking for ways to keep the pressure on Russia during its invasion of Ukraine. Some countries have committed to phasing out Russian oil and gas, while others are still investigating ways of doing this. Saudi Arabia is one of a number of countries, along with Venezuela and Iran, that might be able to plug the gap in oil production.

【Para.2】How important is Saudi Arabia as an oil producer?Saudi Arabia has an estimated 17% of the world’s proven petroleum reserves. Saudi Aramco, the state-owned company which handles Saudi oil, is the world’s largest oil exporter, and one of the world’s most profitable companies. In 2019, in an unexpected move, a tiny part of the company went public. It raised less than Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s ruler, had reportedly hoped for, but still brought in about $25bn. The UAE, meanwhile, holds the estimated seventh largest reserves in the world.

【Para.3】Are Saudi Arabia and the UAE going to open the taps to oblige the west?Boris Johnson went to Riyadh to ask if the Saudis would consider increasing their output, but so far the answer appears to be no. He also approached the UAE. However, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and western countries has been fairly frosty in the aftermath of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Relations with the UAE are not at their best either.

【Para.4】Meanwhile Riyadh has been coordinating oil supply levels with Moscow over the last few years, although that has also not been smooth. Saudi Arabia was reported on Thursday to be considering accepting the Chinese yuan in exchange for oil, rather than the traditional dollar.

【Para.5】Does Saudi Arabia have any plans to decarbonise? How realistic are they?Prince Mohammed has said Saudi Arabia aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, with initial investments of more than 700bn riyals ($187bn). They are investing heavily in renewables.

【Para.6】The Saudis often cite the circular carbon economy, in which CO2 is captured and then re-used, recycled or removed. Its deployment depends heavily on technologies that are still not commercially proven. In an interview with Time magazine, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, said that although it would pump more oil, “we can become more efficient, by installing insulation for buildings, by having more efficient standards for industry, and so on. And we can take the CO2 that was committed to the atmosphere and use it in a valuable application, say for a food or beverage company, as a valuable product, so it becomes a material, instead of discarding it.”

【Para.7】Both countries are also members of the Middle East Green Initiative, a regional pact on climate change agreed last autumn.

【Para.8】If Saudi Arabia does decide to pump more oil, what will be the implications for the climate? Prof Simon Evans of Carbon Brief says: “Ordinarily you’d say higher production means higher emissions, but the current situation is unusual. It’s at least possible that higher production from Saudi and others could allow Europe to cut purchases from Russia. And if Russia’s exports are geographically constrained (eg pipeline or lack of refinery capacity able to take Russian-grade crude elsewhere) or otherwise struggling to find buyers, then it could have to cut production. Quite a few big ifs there but it seems plausible/possible.”

【Para.9】Evans added that Saudi oil has lower upstream emissions than Russian oil.【声明】：本文原文摘选自TG，原文版权归杂志所有，仅供个人学习交流使用。

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