据彭博新闻社2021年1月7日休斯敦报道,美国著名页岩生产商德文能源公司的新老板里克·蒙克里伊夫近日表示,他不会让本周油价的大幅上涨诱使自己不惜一切代价回到产量迅猛增长的日子,蒙克里伊夫因此成为最新一位呼吁限制产量的美国页岩公司高管。
蒙克里伊夫在接受媒体记者采访时表示,“我很难看到美国生产商在未来几年恢复产量两位数增长的需求。”“对于管理团队来说,如果我们真正考虑到2021年,那么让我们保持产量平稳。”
蒙克里伊夫的此番评论呼应了先锋自然资源公司首席执行官斯科特· 谢菲尔德和美国西方石油公司首席执行官维吉·霍勒布的观点。在此之前,沙特阿拉伯出人意料地计划在未来两个月减产,推动了油价飙升。这三位美国页岩行业高管都呼吁保持谨慎,他们注意到,多年来的无节制产量增长造成了页岩行业的巨大损失。这些增长消耗了大量现金,甚至在新冠肺炎疫情爆发之前,投资者就已经没什么可表现的了。
德文能源公司周四(1月7日)完成了对WPX能源公司的收购,据蒙克里伊夫说,德文能源公司计划保持与去年第四季度持平的产量。蒙克里伊夫此前管理WPX能源公司长达六年。先锋自然资源公司将坚持最初设定的仅5%的产量增长目标,而霍勒布说,她今后的主要关注点是削减债务。
1月7日,美国另一家钻井公司Ovintiv公司的首席执行官道格·萨特尔斯在由高盛集团主持的投资者会议网络直播中表示,“现在平稳才是新增长。”“我们需要看到全球市场复苏,我们的行业需要表现出自律,这就是我们将要做的。”
美国原油日产量目前徘徊在1100万桶左右,约占去年全球需求的12%,比2020年初的产量峰值低200万桶左右。页岩运营商的财务状况疲软,以及新近做出的承诺表明,产量损失(相当于美国墨西哥湾的全部产量)短期内不会恢复。
李峻 编译自 彭博社
原文如下:
Shale CEOs Urge Production Restraint
The new boss of Devon Energy Corp. said he won’t let this week’s rally in oil prices tempt him to return to the days of rampant production growth at any cost, becoming the latest shale executive to call for restraint.
“I have a hard time seeing the need for U.S. producers over the next several years to get back to double-digit growth,” Chief Executive Officer Rick Muncrief said in an interview. “For this management team, if we really think about 2021, let’s keep it flat.”
Muncrief’s comments echo those of Scott Sheffield, who heads up Pioneer Natural Resources Co., and Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s Vicki Hollub, after Saudi Arabia’s surprise plan to cut production in the next two months sent oil prices surging. All three executives urged caution, mindful of the industry carnage caused by years of unchecked growth that burned through cash and left investors with little to show for even before the pandemic took its toll.
Devon, which closed its acquisition of WPX Energy Inc. “Flat is the new growth right now,” Doug Suttles, CEO of Ovintiv Inc., another driller, told an investor webcast hosted by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. U.S. crude production is currently hovering around 11 million barrels a day, about 12% of global demand last year, and some 2 million barrels below its peak at the beginning of 2020. Shale operators’ financial weakness and newfound pledges for discipline suggest that lost production, equivalent to the entire output of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, won’t come back anytime soon.





