Frontera能源公司削减今年产量目标30%

据石油新闻2020年8月7日哥伦比亚波哥大报道，总部位于多伦多其主要业务在哥伦比亚的加拿大油气生产商Frontera能源公司官员8月7日在电话会议上表示，该公司日前下调了其今年全年生产目标，至4.6万桶油当量/天，比去年12月份宣布的6.5万桶油当量/天下降了30%。

Frontera能源公司首席执行官理查德·赫伯特表示，该公司去年全年产量为7.1万桶油当量/天，是哥伦比亚第二大石油和天然气生产商，仅次于哥伦比亚国家石油公司（Ecopetrol）。

Frontera能源公司将此次产量目标调整归咎于新冠病毒疫情大流行，以及“在我们行业过去40年所见的最黯淡的状况”。Frontera能源公司今年的资本支出计划已削减了三分之二。

但公司高管们坚称，在大幅削减成本后，Frontera能源公司现在拥有强劲的现金收支表，“公司能够生存下去，甚至繁荣发展”。Frontera能源公司是曾寻求破产保护的Pacific Rubiales能源公司的继承公司，后者在10年前在哥伦比亚东部Meta省重油油田的开发中发挥了核心作用。

Frontera能源公司高管原计划在此次电话会议上讨论其今年第二季度的业绩，其中包括第二季度产量骤降至4.2597万桶油当量/天，比去年同期的7.4385万桶油当量/天下降42.7%，比今年第一季度的6.3572万桶油当量/天下降33%。

李峻 编译自 石油新闻

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Frontera Energy cuts 2020 production target by 30%

Frontera Energy, the Toronto-based oil and natural gas producer with its principal operations in Colombia, lowered its full-year 2020 production target to 46,000 barrels per day of crude and equivalents, down 30% from a goal of 65,000 boe/d announced in December 2019, officials said during an Aug. 7 conference call.

CEO Richard Herbert said the company, which with 71,000 boe/d of full-year output in 2019 was Colombia's second largest oil and gas producer after state-controlled giant Ecopetrol, blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the revision and the "bleakest conditions seen in our industry in the last 40 years." The company's planned capital expenditure for 2020 has been cut by two thirds.

But executives insisted that after severe cost cutting Frontera now enjoys a strong cash balance and "can survive and even thrive." Frontera is the successor company to Pacific Rubiales, which sought bankruptcy protection and played a central role in opening up Colombia's heavy crude fields in eastern Meta province a decade ago.

Frontera executives scheduled the conference call to discuss its second-quarter 2020 results, which including a precipitous drop in Q2 production to 42,597 boe/d, down 42.7% from 74,385 boe/d in the year-ago period, and off 33% from 63,572 boe/d in 2020's first quarter.