中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社报道,尽管原油期货价格大幅下跌至2017年夏季以来的最低水平,但美国能源公司在过去三周里首次增加了石油钻井平台数量。
能源服务公司贝克休斯在上周五公布的一份报告中称,截至12月21日的一周内,能源企业增加了10座石油钻井平台,使总数量达到883座,这是自11月初以来,钻井平台数量增幅最大的一周。
美国超过一半的石油钻井平台都在该国最大的页岩油地层——二叠纪盆地。该地区现役钻井平台本周稳定在486座,为10月初以来的最低水平。
能源企业在科罗拉多州和怀俄明州的Niobrara页岩增加了2座石油钻井平台,使总数达到30座,为2017年9月以来的最高水平,在北达科他州和蒙大拿州的威利斯顿增加了3座石油钻井平台,使总数达到56座。
美国钻井平台的数量是衡量未来产量的早期指标,而今年的数量高于一年前的水平(去年当时有747台钻井平台处于活跃状态),原因是能源企业为获取更高的价格投入了更多资金。
美国投资银行Piper Jaffray能源专家西蒙斯公司的分析师们本周预测,石油和天然气钻井平台的平均总量将从2017年的876台上升到2018年的1031台,2019年将为1092台,2020年将为1227台。
今年到目前为止,在美国活跃的石油和天然气钻井平台总数平均为1031台。这使得2018年的钻井总数保持在2014年(2014年平均有1862个钻井平台)以来的最高水平,大多数钻井同时生产石油和天然气。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
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U.S. drillers add oil rigs for first week in three: Baker Hughes
U.S. energy firms added oil rigs for the first time in the past three weeks despite sharp declines in crude futures prices to their lowest since the summer of 2017.
Drillers added 10 oil rigs in the week to Dec. 21, bringing the total count to 883, General Electric Co’s (GE.N) Baker Hughes energy services firm said in its closely followed report on Friday. RIG-OL-USA-BHI. This was the biggest weekly gain in rig numbers since early November.
More than half the total U.S. oil rigs are in the Permian Basin, the country’s biggest shale oil formation. Active units there held steady this week at 486, the lowest since early October.
Drillers added 2 rigs in the Niobrara shale in Colorado and Wyoming, bringing the total there up to 30, the most since Sept. 2017, and three rigs in Williston in North Dakota and Montana, bringing the total up to 56.
The U.S. rig count, an early indicator of future output, is higher than a year ago when 747 rigs were active as energy companies have spent more to capture higher prices.
Analysts at Simmons & Co, energy specialists at U.S. investment bank Piper Jaffray, this week forecast the average combined oil and natural gas rig count would rise from 876 in 2017 to 1,031 in 2018, 1,092 in 2019 and 1,227 in 2020.
Year-to-date, the total number of oil and gas rigs active in the United States has averaged 1,031. That keeps the total count for 2018 on track for the highest since 2014, which averaged 1,862 rigs. Most rigs produce both oil and gas. ?