美国能源基础设施受疫情影响严重

据油气新闻6月17日消息，美国跨国能源公司Phillips 66董事长兼首席执行官格雷格·加兰德(Greg Garland)在5月初举行的公司第一季度电话会议上表示:“就像在当前的危机中一样，流动性为王。”

与上游行业一样，美国中游行业也在努力保持流动性，以应对前所未有的市场状况。随着石油和天然气生产商削减预算和钻井活动，疫情导致的油价和需求暴跌赶上了美国能源基础设施计划。

为了应对可以预想的低吞吐量，并努力保持流动性，Phillips 66和美国其他中游运营商最近推迟了几条输油管道的服役日期和最终投资决定，并缩减了其他管道的输油产能。

根据EIA最新更新的“液体管道项目数据库”，截至6月4日，美国有5条管道以及通往墨西哥的此类管道被暂停。

去年，共有14条原油管道完工，比2018年的11条有所增加，因为中游运营商抓住机会扩大了管道基础设施，以便将石油产量从二叠纪盆地输送到美国墨西哥湾沿岸的炼油厂和出口中心。

EIA的数据库显示，截至今年4月，已经完成了3个原油管道项目，这些都是新的管道项目，而不是现有管道的扩建。

裘寅 编译自 油气新闻

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U.S.Energy Infrastructure Hit Hard By Pandemic

“And like in the current crisis, liquidity is king,” Phillips 66 chairman and chief executive Greg Garland said on the company’s Q1 conference call in early May.

Like the upstream, America’s midstream sector is also grappling with preserving liquidity in response to unprecedented market conditions. The oil price and demand crash in the COVID-19 pandemic caught up with U.S. energy infrastructure plans as oil and gas producers slashed budgets and drilling activity.

In response to expected lower throughput volumes and in an attempt to preserve liquidity, Phillips 66 and other midstream operators in the United States have recently deferred in-service dates and final investment decisions on several oil pipelines and scaled back the capacity of others.

According to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest update of its Liquids Pipeline Projects Database, five pipelines in the U.S. and such crossing into Mexico were on hold as of June 4.

Last year, a total of 14 crude oil pipelines were completed, up from 11 in 2018, as midstream operators seized the opportunity to expand pipeline infrastructure to take surging oil production from the Permian basin to the refinery and export centers along the U.S.

Gulf Coast.

This year through April, three crude oil pipeline projects were completed, and all of them were new pipeline projects, not extensions of existing pipelines, according to the EIA’s database.