美国是世界能源市场上非常重要的国家,在供给和需求两个方面,都深刻地影响着世界能源市场。近年来,美国天然气和石油产量的快速增长给世界能源格局带来了新的变化,推动着世界能源格局的改变。奥巴马政府上台以来,将发展页岩气代表的非常规油气、发展清洁能源、应对气候变化以及提高能源使用效率作为战略重点,以推动美国能源独立目标的实现。拉美石油储量丰富,正处于油气大发现和开发的新阶段。拉美国家的石油对外合作政策国别差异较大,尽管“资源民族主义”有所抬头,但保持对外开放仍是政策主流,资源国实施的对外合作多元化战略仍没有改变。拉美不仅对确保中国石油进口多元来源具有战略意义,而且也是中国石油公司实施“走出去”战略的重要目标区。
The United States is a very important country and has profound impact on the world energy market in both supply and demand. In recent years, the U.S. natural gas and oil production in such a rapid growth has brought new energy landscape changes to the world, and also promoted changes in the pattern of world energy. Since taking his office, the President Obama has developed strategies going with priorities in having shale gas, an unconventional one rather than oil and gas, using clean energy, dealing with climate change and improving energy efficiency to achieve the U.S. energy independence goals.
Latin America enjoys rich oil reserves and is currently in a new era of oil and gas discovery and development, but Latin American countries are now holding very different national foreign cooperation policies. Despite the fact that the "resource nationalism" is on its rise, opening-up policies maintain the mainstream still, and there is no change either in implementing diversification strategy of resource cooperation with foreign countries. Latin America is not only strategically significant to ensure diverse sources of oil imports to China, but also becomes an important targeting area for "going out" strategy implementation for Chinese oil companies.