据7月31日Energy Voice报道，康菲石油公司(ConocoPhillips)在第二季度勉强实现了盈利，尽管冠状病毒疫情对石油和天然气行业造成了经济影响。这家位于休斯顿的石油巨头第二季度的收入为2.6亿美元，而去年同期的收入为16亿美元。该公司公布的营业收入接近7亿美元，略低于一年前的水平。
该公司首席执行官Ryan Lance在一份声明中称："第二季整体业绩主要受到实际价格疲弱的影响，加上我们采取理性的经济行动削减产量，以助力未来价格的走高。重要的是，我们的基本业务业绩强劲，反映了我们对安全执行计划的持续承诺，以及在这一具有挑战性的时期，我们员工的奉献精神。”
许多石油和天然气公司在第二季度艰难地抵御着冠状病毒疫情，这压低了原油需求和价格。各公司大幅削减了新钻井的支出，并停止了现有油井的生产。康菲石油公司削减了52亿美元的预算，以应对最近冠状病毒引发的石油危机。
在油价回升至每桶40美元以上后，康菲石油公司开始在美国和加拿大增加油气产量。该公司第二季度的石油和天然气产量减少了22.5万桶/天。美国大部分的减产都发生在德克萨斯州南部的Eagle Ford页岩区和北达科他州的Bakken页岩区。
分析师预计康菲石油公司将在8月和9月前恢复削减的油气产量。
加拿大丰业银行（Scotiabank）分析师保罗?程（Paul Cheng）周四在一份研究报告中表示：“可能是最灵活的关闭油气产量的运营商，我们认为这证明了绝大多数被关闭的页岩气产量应该在未来一至两个月内恢复。”
康菲石油公司第二季度的财报得益于今年5月以13.9亿美元的价格将其澳大利亚北部业务出售给桑托斯公司。该公司表示，去年10月宣布的出售交易在第二季度产生了约7.65亿美元的收益，预计这些收益将用于一般公司用途。
王佳晶 摘译自 Energy Voice
原文如下：
ConocoPhillips reports $260M profit in second quarter
ConocoPhillips managed to eke out a profit in the second quarter, despite the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic that has hammered the oil and gas industry.
The Houston oil major made $260 million during the second quarter, compared with earnings of $1.6 billion in the same period a year ago. The company posted operating revenue of nearly $700 million, slightly down from a year ago.
“Headline second-quarter performance was dominated by weak realized prices, coupled with our rational economic action to curtail production in favor of expected higher future prices,” CEO Ryan Lance said in a statement. “Importantly, our underlying business results were strong, reflecting our ongoing commitment to safely executing our plans and the dedication of our workforce during this challenging time.”
Many oil and gas companies struggled during the second quarter to weather the coronavirus pandemic, which depressed crude demand and prices. Companies slashed spending on new drilling and halted production on existing wells. ConocoPhillips has cut $5.2 billion from its budget in response to the recent coronavirus-driven oil bust.
After oil prices climbed back above $40 a barrel, ConocoPhillips began ramping up oil and gas production across the U.S. and Canada. The company curtailed oil and gas production by about 225,000 barrels per day during the second quarter. Most of the production cuts in the U.S. were made in the Eagle Ford shale play in South Texas and the Bakken shale play in North Dakota.
Analysts expect that ConocoPhillips will restore its curtailed oil and gas production by August and September.
“Given that (ConocoPhillips) is the operator with perhaps the most flexibility to leave volumes shut in, we view this as testament that the vast majority of shut-in shale volumes should be back online within the next one to two months,” Paul Cheng, an analyst with Scotiabank, said in a research note Thursday.
ConocoPhillip’s second-quarter financial results were helped by the sale of its northern Australian business to Santos for $1.39 billion in May. The sale, announced in October, produced about $765 million in proceeds during the second quarter that are expected to be used for “general corporate purposes,” the company said.
