L'Arabie saoudite a demandé à sa compagnie nationale Aramco de maintenir sa capacité de production de pétrole à 12 millions de barils par jour, renonçant à un projet d'augmentation annoncé en 2021, a indiqué mardi la compagnie.
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00:00 Saudi Arabia has asked its national company Aramco to maintain its oil production capacity
00:05 at 12 million barrels per day, giving up a project of increased production announced
00:09 in 2021, the company said on Tuesday.
00:12 Aramco is the flagship of the world's largest crude oil exporter, which is betting on its
00:17 revenues to finance the vast reform program of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aiming to prepare
00:22 the Gulf Kingdom for pre-oil.
00:24 Aramco announced it had received a directive from the Ministry of Energy to maintain its
00:29 maximum capacity of 12 million barrels per day (MBJ) instead of 13 MBJ as planned,
00:35 the company said in a statement.
00:37 Investment spending forecasts will be updated at the time of the announcement of the
00:42 annual results of 2023 in March, it added.
00:45 The oil monarchy had announced its intention to increase its daily production capacity
00:50 by 1 million barrels in October 2021, the same month it committed to reaching
00:55 carbon neutrality in 2060, arousing skepticism among environmentalists.
00:59 The decision to abandon this goal suggests that Riyadh is not very confident that the
01:04 world will need such an additional capacity, and that the investment necessary to reach
01:09 and maintain the 13 MBJ would be better spent elsewhere, said Jamie Ingram, of the
01:14 specialized Middle East Economic Survey publication.
01:16 Earlier this month, Aramco had injected $4 billion into its venture capital company,
01:22 Aramco Ventures, making its capital from $3 billion to $7 billion, he recalled.
01:27 The company aims to neutralize its operations in 2050, not to mention the emissions produced
01:33 by the oil exported and burned by its customers.
01:35 Climate agreement Saudi Arabia has always claimed that an increase
01:40 in fossil fuel investment was necessary to ensure energy security in the world,
01:46 especially in Africa.
01:48 During the COP28, the World Climate Conference held in December in Dubai, the kingdom
01:53 was one of the main opponents to the mention in the final text of a reduction or elimination
01:58 of fossil fuels, causing global warming.
02:01 The agreement adopted at the end of the negotiations however opened the way to their gradual abandonment,
02:06 calling for the transition out of fossil fuels.
02:09 Saudi Energy Minister Abdelaziz Ben Salman had then minimized the scope,
02:15 stating that the text would have no impact on the exports of his country.
02:19 "It does not impose anything on the producing countries and allows them to reduce their
02:23 emissions according to their means and their interests," he said in an interview
02:27 with the Saudi Arabian Business Channel.
02:29 Tuesday's announcement should not have immediate effects on the kingdom's production,
02:34 which is currently well below its capacity of 12 million barrels per day, at about
02:39 9 million BPJ.
02:40 Since October 2022, Arabia has contracted its production of about 2 million barrels
02:46 per day to support the courses.
02:47 These voluntary cuts and the resumption of courses have reduced Aramco's profits by
02:52 23% in the third quarter of 2023 to $32.58 billion, against $42.43 billion in the same
03:00 period of the previous year.
03:02 In 2022, the post-pandemic economic recovery and the rise in prices in the wake of the
03:07 Russian war in Ukraine had propelled its profits to a record level of $161.1 billion.