据美国彭博新闻社9月9日华盛顿报道,美国能源信息署(EIA)9日在其最新一期月度短期能源展望报告中表示,油价暴跌对美国今明两年原油产量产生的影响正超过之前的估计。
EIA在报告中把其对美国今年原油产量预测削减了1.5%至922万桶/天。EIA在报告中还把其对明年美国原油产量预测从上个月预测的896万桶/天减少到了882万桶/天。
EIA署长亚当·谢明斯基在一份电子邮件声明中说,为了应对低油价,美国每月的原油产量预计在明年年中前逐步下降。目前的低油价将使美国的一些石油生产盈利减少。
由于油价暴跌,美国的页岩钻井商自去年10月以来把他们在用的钻机数削减了一半多。根据贝克休斯统计,上周美国在用钻机总数减少了13部至662部。
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US Cuts Crude Output Forecast as Rout Weakens Shale Boom
Bloomberg
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
The collapse of oil prices will have a slightly bigger impact on U.S. crude production this year and the next than previously estimated, the Energy Information Administration said.
The agency reduced its output forecast for this year by 1.5 percent to 9.22 million barrels a day, according to its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook. It cut the 2016 forecast to 8.82 million from 8.96 million last month.
“U.S. monthly crude oil production is expected to decline through the middle of next year in response to low oil prices,” EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski said in an e-mailed statement. “Current low oil prices are making some U.S. oil production less profitable.”
America’s shale drillers have sidelined more than half their rigs since October as they confront tumbling prices. The number of active oil rigs in the U.S. fell by 13 to 662 last week, according to data compiled by Baker Hughes Inc.