巴国油上季度恢复盈利

据能源世界网2月25日里约热内卢报道，巴西国有石油公司巴国油(Petrobras)周三宣布，该公司在2020年第四季度恢复盈利，在该公司股价暴跌20%两天后，这一消息令人欣慰。

巴国油公布的去年10-12月净利润超过分析师预期，为599亿雷亚尔(按当前汇率计算为110亿美元)，扭转了因新冠疫情导致的连续三个季度亏损。

这一业绩足以让这家巴西最大的公司以令人惊讶的71亿雷亚尔的年利润结束这一令人震惊的年度。这可能是该公司首席执行长布兰科(Roberto Castello Branco)任内的最后一个季度。Castello Branco称这一结果是“在极具挑战性的环境下的杰出表现。

他在一份声明中表示，在严重的全球衰退和石油行业受到重大冲击的影响之际，我们承诺将构建一个J型复苏。我们兑现了诺言。

分析师此前预测，第四季度利润仅为49亿雷亚尔。

这一结果比2019年第四季度增长了635%，当时巴国油增加了20亿美元，结束了一年创纪录的102亿美元净利润。

郝芬 译自 能源世界网

原文如下：

Brazil's Petrobras returns to profit in fourth quarter of 2020

Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, announced Wednesday it returned to profit in the fourth quarter of 2020, welcome news two days after its stock took a 20-percent nose-dive.

Petrobras beat analysts' expectations to post a net profit of 59.9 billion reais ($11 billion, at the current exchange rate) for the period from October to December, reversing three straight quarters of losses fueled by the coronavirus pandemic.

The result was strong enough for Brazil's biggest company to end the Covid-shaken year with a surprise annual profit of 7.1 billion reais.

It will likely be the company's final quarter under chief executive Roberto Castello Branco,Castello Branco called the results "an exceptional performance in a very challenging environment."

"In the middle of a severe global recession and the effects of a major shock for the oil industry, we promised to structure a J-shaped recovery," he said in a statement.

"We have delivered on our promises."

Analysts had been forecasting a profit of just 4.9 billion reais for the quarter.

The result was up 635 percent from the fourth quarter of 2019, when Petrobras added $2 billion to close out a year of record net profit ($10.2 billion).