據5月7日Energy Voice報道，由于油價暴跌，挪國油利潤同比下降了98%，即38億英鎊。

這家能源巨頭是受到大宗商品價格下跌打擊的眾多石油巨頭中的最新一家。大宗商品價格下跌導致該公司資產減記19億英鎊，其中很大一部分資產位于挪威和美國境內。

盡管挪國油在2020年第一季度實現了創紀錄的產量，部分原因是英國的Mariner油田的投產，但該公司首席執行官埃爾達?薩特(Eldar Saetre)表示，在未來，挪國油將優先考慮價值而非產量。

該公司已開始削減業務，尤其是在美國境內，并將在必要時考慮進一步削減。第一季度的稅前利潤為6570萬英鎊，低于去年同期的39億英鎊，而日產量增加了3%，達到每天220萬桶。

該公司已經宣布了一項30億美元(24億英鎊)的“行動計劃”來應對經濟危機，包括取消股票回購計劃和削減三分之二的股東股息。

薩特表示:“公司的財務業績受到了大宗商品價格下跌的影響。然而，我們在當前市場條件下，以創紀錄的高產量和穩定的現金流，實現了強勁的經營業績，但是市場不確定性仍然很高，大宗商品價格非常低，在第一季度末和第二季度初差價增加。”

洪偉立 摘譯自 Energy Voice

原文如下：

Equinor’s profits crash by 98% due to oil price slump

Norway’s Equinor saw its profits slide by 98% – a drop of ￡3.8billion – year-on-year as the Covid-19 pandemic and oil price crash took effect.

The energy giant is the latest in a line of oil majors to be struck by the commodity price drop, which saw the firm take write-downs of ￡1.9bn for its assets, a large chunk being in Norway and onshore US.

Despite achieving record high production in the first quarter of 2020, partly due to the Mariner field in the UK, chief executive Eldar Saetre said Equinor will “prioritise value over volume” going forward.

Equinor has already started activity reductions, particularly in the US onshore, and will consider more as necessary.

Pre-tax profits in Q1 were ￡65.7million, down from ￡3.9billion in the same period last year, while daily production was up 3% to 2.2million barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Equinor already announced a $3billion (￡2.4bn) “action plan” to deal with the economic crisis, including cancelling its share buyback programme and cutting the shareholder dividend by two-thirds.

Mr Saetre said: “Our financial results in the quarter were impacted by the lower commodity prices. However, we delivered strong operational performance with record high production and solid cash flow under these market conditions.

“Uncertainty remains high with very low commodity prices and increased differentials towards the end of first quarter and in the start of the second quarter.