據(jù)路透社7月14日倫敦報(bào)道，英國石油公司（bp）的一名高管表示，bp計(jì)劃在2025年前開始在澳大利亞生產(chǎn)可持續(xù)航空燃料（SAF），此前bp已將其位于珀斯附近的煉油廠改造成生產(chǎn)可再生燃料工廠。

負(fù)責(zé)低碳解決方案的亞太區(qū)副總裁Lucy Nation對路透社表示，這個項(xiàng)目預(yù)計(jì)將耗資“數(shù)億”美元。  

bp尚未披露SAF計(jì)劃產(chǎn)量，但Nation表示，SAF產(chǎn)量將取決于需求，因該工廠將能夠每天在生產(chǎn)SAF和生物柴油之間切換。

這個生產(chǎn)SAF的克維納納工廠位于西澳大利亞州，該地區(qū)以采礦業(yè)為主，對卡車用柴油的需求很大。 

Nation在出席在悉尼舉行的一個能源論壇間隙對媒體記者表示：“我們在克維納納很幸運(yùn)，因?yàn)槲覀兡軌蛑匦吕靡恍┨幚碓O(shè)備和公用設(shè)施，而且我們有儲罐隨時可以使用。”該能源論壇由澳大利亞政府和國際能源署主辦。

Nation說：“這有助于我們加快速度，降低資本密集程度。但這仍然是一項(xiàng)非常昂貴的投資。”

航空旅行約占全球碳排放的2%。航空業(yè)的目標(biāo)是到2050年前達(dá)到凈零排放，全球SAF的年使用量在今后30年內(nèi)將從2021年的大約1億升（2600萬加侖）增加到至少4490億升，這是一個巨大的挑戰(zhàn)。

李峻 編譯自 路透社

原文如下：

BP aims to start producing SAF in Australia by 2025

BP is aiming to start producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Australia by 2025 after converting its oil refinery near Perth to produce renewable fuels, a senior executive of the British company said.

The project is expected to cost "hundreds of millions" of dollars, BP's Asia Pacific vice president of low-carbon solutions, Lucy Nation, told Reuters.

BP has not disclosed what volume it plans to produce, but Nation said output would depend on demand as the facility would be able to switch day-to-day between producing sustainable aviation fuel and biodiesel.

Its Kwinana plant is in Western Australia, a region dominated by the mining industry where there is heavy demand for diesel for trucks.

"We're lucky at Kwinana in that we're able to reutilize some of the processing equipment, the utilities and we have tanks ready to go," Nation told a briefing on the sidelines of the Sydney Energy Forum, hosted by the Australian government and the International Energy Agency.

"So that helps us speed up and be somewhat less capital intensive. But it is still a very expensive investment," she said.

Air travel accounts for about 2% of global carbon emissions. The industry is aiming to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, relying on SAF usage to rise from around 100 MM liters (26 MM gallons) a year in 2021 to at least 449 B liters a year within three decades, a massive challenge.