石油圈中國石化新聞網訊 據路透社休斯頓報道，能源高管們表示，北美石油生產商一直在增加支出，以利用今年油價上漲的機會。隨著11月的逆轉加劇了人們對2019年石油過剩的擔憂，它們將回調鉆探預算。 美國輕質低硫原油周五收于每桶50.42美元，自10月以來下跌近23%，是一年多來由于擔心供應過剩而降至最低水平。油價下降之際，許多石油生產商正在編制2019年的鉆探預算。 德克薩斯州的能源監管機構德州鐵路委員會的Ryan Sitton表示，規模較小的德克薩斯州生產商已經抑制了一些鉆探活動。 Sitton稱：“六周前，這些公司中有一些是盈利的，現在它們只能說是實現了收支平衡，油價波動幅度已經足夠大，以至于一些公司不再產生自由現金流?！?一些生產商通過采取對沖措施鎖定第四季度生產的優惠價格，減輕了價格下跌對利潤和活動的短期影響。 位于德克薩斯州米德蘭的鉆井服務公司伯德油田服務公司銷售經理Clint Concord表示：“我們所看到的只是鉆井活動的增加，而原油價格下跌對鉆井活動的影響需要一段時間才能顯現出來”。 詹曉晶摘自路透社 原文如下： Oil’s Black Friday drop could hit drilling budgets for 2019 North American oil producers that have been increasing spending to take advantage of this year’s higher prices will dial back as November’s reversal fuels worries about a 2019 surplus, energy executives say. U.S. light sweet crude settled on Friday at $50.42 a barrel, down nearly 23 percent since October and the lowest in more than a year over worries about oversupply and the Sino-U.S. trade war. The drop comes as many oil producers are assembling drilling budgets for 2019. Smaller Texas producers had already curbed some activity, said Ryan Sitton, who sits on the Texas Railroad Commission, the state’s energy regulator. “Six weeks ago some of these were profitable and now they’re break-even,” said Sitton. “The (price) swing has been large enough that we have some companies that are no longer generating free cash flow.” Some producers have alleviated the price drop by locking in favorable prices for fourth-quarter production using hedges that will lessen the near-term impact on profit and activity. “All we’ve seen is increases” in drilling activity, said Clint Concord, a sales manager at drilling services firm Byrd Oilfield Services in Midland, Texas. The effect of falling crude prices “takes a while to hit the field.” ? ?
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