中國石化新聞網訊 據今日油價網站1月5日消息 加拿大石油業預計,2021年將是從2020年新冠疫情造成的經濟低迷中復甦的一年,預計今年加拿大石油行業的總投資將比去年增長12%。
卡爾加裡先驅報援引加拿大石油生產商協會(CAPP)的預測報導,預計2021年油砂作業和常規油氣生產的綜合投資將增至近210億美元(270億加元),而2020年的投資額為190億美元(240億加元)。
CAPP副總裁Ben Brunnen向卡爾加裡先驅報的Chris Varcoe表示:「相對於2020年,加拿大西部經濟體將獲得20億美元的額外投資,表明能源市場將出現一定程度的穩定和復甦。」
根據CAPP 2020年11月資本投資和鑽井預測,2019年勘探與生產(E&P)資本支出為270億美元(350億加元),比2018年下降10%。由於流感大流行,對2020年投資的預測顯示,投資額為190億美元(240億加元),與2019年相比,投資出現了前所未有的32%的下滑。
該協會預計,2020年將鑽探約3000口油氣井,而2021年鑽探的油氣井數量將增至約3300口。
在艾伯塔省政府表示將在去年年底取消石油產量限制後,石油公司計劃提高產量。
塞諾佛斯能源執行長Alex Pourbaix 11月在接受路透社採訪時表示:「未來幾個月,我們將看到相當一部分資金回流。」
自2020年12月起,艾伯塔省取消了強制削減石油產量的規定,因為管道上有足夠的空間讓生產商利用現有的管道容量並創造就業機會。
王磊 摘譯自 今日油價
原文如下:
Investment In Canada’s Oil Industry Set To Grow 12% In 2021
Canada’s oil industry expects that 2021 will be the year of recovery from the downturn caused by the pandemic in 2020, with total investments in Canada’s oil sector expected to increase by 12 percent this year compared to last year.
Combined investments in oil sands operations and conventional oil and gas production are expected to rise to nearly US$21 billion (C$27 billion) in 2021, compared to US$19 billion (C$24 billion) in 2020, Calgary Herald reports, citing forecasts from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).
「An extra $2 billion of investment into the Western Canadian economies, relative to 2020, I』d say is a pretty significant vote of confidence there will be some stability and recovery in energy markets,」 CAPP vice president Ben Brunnen told Calgary Herald’s Chris Varcoe.
According to CAPP’s November 2020 capital investment and drilling forecast, exploration and production (E&P) capital spending was US$27 billion (C$35 billion) in 2019, down by 10 percent compared to 2018. Due to the pandemic, the forecast for the 2020 investment showed an unprecedented 32-percent slump from 2019 to US$19 billion (C$24 billion).
The association expected that around 3,000 oil and gas wells would have been drilled in 2020, while the number would increase to around 3,300 oil and gas wells drilled in 2021.
Oil companies have plans to ramp up their production after the Alberta government said it would remove oil production limits at the end of last year.
「We’re going to see a significant amount of that come back over the next few months,」 Alex Pourbaix, chief executive at Cenovus Energy, told Reuters in an interview in November.
The province of Alberta lifted the mandatory curtailment of oil production as of December 2020 since there is enough space on pipelines to allow producers to utilize available pipeline capacity and create jobs.