去年英国2004年以来首次成为原油净出口国

据石油新闻2021年2月25日伦敦报道，英国商业、能源和工业战略部（BEIS）2月25日公布的统计数据显示，去年英国上游石油日产量骤降了7%至3年低点的103万桶，而这个国家去年自2004年以来首次成为一个原油和天然气液体的净出口国。

尽管在运营商采取行动赶上第三季度的基本活动之前维护作业(特别是在上半年)的推迟可能支持了产量水平，去年英国上游石油产量的大幅下降被业内人士归因于COVID-19对海上活动的限制。

在全部数据中，原油产量下降了8%，为92.9万桶/天，其余9.6万桶为天然气液体。在第四季度回升之前，第三季度的产出大幅下降，同比下降了12%。

在很多情况下，石油生产商可能会因油价暴跌而减少产量，美国石油生产商阿帕奇公司表示，正是出于这个原因，它减少了产量。

英国石油产量最近一次下降是在2017年，当时达到了100万桶/天，在过去的5年里，英国石油产量大多处于复苏趋势。

李峻 编译自 石油新闻

原文如下：

UK upstream oil output plunges 7% to three-year low in 2020

UK oil production dropped 7% to a three-year low of 1.03 million b/d in 2020, while the country was a net exporter of crude and natural gas liquids for the first time since 2004, statistics from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, or BEIS, showed on Feb. 25.

The sharp drop in output has been attributed by the industry to restrictions on offshore activity due to COVID-19, although postponement of maintenance particularly in the first half may have supported production levels, before operators moved to catch up on essential activity in the third quarter.

Within the overall figure, crude oil production was down 8% at 929,000 b/d, with the remaining 96,000 b/d being NGLs. Output plunged particularly steeply in the third quarter, down 12% on the year, before picking up in the fourth quarter.

In some cases, production may have been reduced in response to the plunge in the oil prices operators could hope to attract, with US producer Apache saying it held back production for this reason.

UK oil output was last lower in 2017, when it hit 1 million b/d, having mostly been on a recovery trend over the last half-decade.