市场状况导致挪国油利润暴跌98%

据5月7日Energy Voice报道，由于油价暴跌，挪国油利润同比下降了98%，即38亿英镑。

这家能源巨头是受到大宗商品价格下跌打击的众多石油巨头中的最新一家。大宗商品价格下跌导致该公司资产减记19亿英镑，其中很大一部分资产位于挪威和美国境内。

尽管挪国油在2020年第一季度实现了创纪录的产量，部分原因是英国的Mariner油田的投产，但该公司首席执行官埃尔达?萨特(Eldar Saetre)表示，在未来，挪国油将优先考虑价值而非产量。

该公司已开始削减业务，尤其是在美国境内，并将在必要时考虑进一步削减。第一季度的税前利润为6570万英镑，低于去年同期的39亿英镑，而日产量增加了3%，达到每天220万桶。

该公司已经宣布了一项30亿美元(24亿英镑)的“行动计划”来应对经济危机，包括取消股票回购计划和削减三分之二的股东股息。

萨特表示:“公司的财务业绩受到了大宗商品价格下跌的影响。然而，我们在当前市场条件下，以创纪录的高产量和稳定的现金流，实现了强劲的经营业绩，但是市场不确定性仍然很高，大宗商品价格非常低，在第一季度末和第二季度初差价增加。”

洪伟立 摘译自 Energy Voice

原文如下：

Equinor’s profits crash by 98% due to oil price slump

Norway’s Equinor saw its profits slide by 98% – a drop of ￡3.8billion – year-on-year as the Covid-19 pandemic and oil price crash took effect.

The energy giant is the latest in a line of oil majors to be struck by the commodity price drop, which saw the firm take write-downs of ￡1.9bn for its assets, a large chunk being in Norway and onshore US.

Despite achieving record high production in the first quarter of 2020, partly due to the Mariner field in the UK, chief executive Eldar Saetre said Equinor will “prioritise value over volume” going forward.

Equinor has already started activity reductions, particularly in the US onshore, and will consider more as necessary.

Pre-tax profits in Q1 were ￡65.7million, down from ￡3.9billion in the same period last year, while daily production was up 3% to 2.2million barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Equinor already announced a $3billion (￡2.4bn) “action plan” to deal with the economic crisis, including cancelling its share buyback programme and cutting the shareholder dividend by two-thirds.

Mr Saetre said: “Our financial results in the quarter were impacted by the lower commodity prices. However, we delivered strong operational performance with record high production and solid cash flow under these market conditions.

“Uncertainty remains high with very low commodity prices and increased differentials towards the end of first quarter and in the start of the second quarter.