石油圈中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社休斯顿报道，能源高管们表示，北美石油生产商一直在增加支出，以利用今年油价上涨的机会。随着11月的逆转加剧了人们对2019年石油过剩的担忧，它们将回调钻探预算。 美国轻质低硫原油周五收于每桶50.42美元，自10月以来下跌近23%，是一年多来由于担心供应过剩而降至最低水平。油价下降之际，许多石油生产商正在编制2019年的钻探预算。 德克萨斯州的能源监管机构德州铁路委员会的Ryan Sitton表示，规模较小的德克萨斯州生产商已经抑制了一些钻探活动。 Sitton称：“六周前，这些公司中有一些是盈利的，现在它们只能说是实现了收支平衡，油价波动幅度已经足够大，以至于一些公司不再产生自由现金流。” 一些生产商通过采取对冲措施锁定第四季度生产的优惠价格，减轻了价格下跌对利润和活动的短期影响。 位于德克萨斯州米德兰的钻井服务公司伯德油田服务公司销售经理Clint Concord表示：“我们所看到的只是钻井活动的增加，而原油价格下跌对钻井活动的影响需要一段时间才能显现出来”。 詹晓晶摘自路透社 原文如下： Oil’s Black Friday drop could hit drilling budgets for 2019 North American oil producers that have been increasing spending to take advantage of this year’s higher prices will dial back as November’s reversal fuels worries about a 2019 surplus, energy executives say. U.S. light sweet crude settled on Friday at $50.42 a barrel, down nearly 23 percent since October and the lowest in more than a year over worries about oversupply and the Sino-U.S. trade war. The drop comes as many oil producers are assembling drilling budgets for 2019. Smaller Texas producers had already curbed some activity, said Ryan Sitton, who sits on the Texas Railroad Commission, the state’s energy regulator. “Six weeks ago some of these were profitable and now they’re break-even,” said Sitton. “The (price) swing has been large enough that we have some companies that are no longer generating free cash flow.” Some producers have alleviated the price drop by locking in favorable prices for fourth-quarter production using hedges that will lessen the near-term impact on profit and activity. “All we’ve seen is increases” in drilling activity, said Clint Concord, a sales manager at drilling services firm Byrd Oilfield Services in Midland, Texas. The effect of falling crude prices “takes a while to hit the field.”
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