据12月15日oil monster消息：有官员表示，10月北达科他州石油产量略高于120万桶/天，接近自疫情开始削减该州巴肯页岩油田产量以来的最高水平。
北达科他州矿产资源部主任林恩·赫尔姆斯在月度简报中援引最新数据表示，该州10月原油产量为122万桶，较上月下降0.02%。
该州石油产量仍低于在疫情开始大幅削减全球燃料需求之前的几个月中保持的140万桶/天。从1月到10月，该地区石油钻井平台数量减少了75%。
赫尔姆斯说:“今年可能是我所见过的石油行业第三糟糕的一年。”上世纪90年代末的石油市场崩盘使北达科他州的钻机数量降至零，80年代中期的油价暴跌使钻机数量从大约150台减少到十几台。
该州在其月度报告中称，目前美国第二大页岩盆地巴肯生产的原油价格约为每桶37美元，较疫情导致燃料需求减少之前的每桶60多美元有所下降。
赫尔姆斯表示，预计2021年大流行造成的燃料需求疲软，加上与原油相对比的清洁能源推动，将继续对油价和生产构成压力。
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North Dakota Oil Output Holds Steady at 1.2 Million bpd for October
North Dakota oil production was just over 1.2 million barrels a day in October, holding near its strongest levels since the coronavirus pandemic began to curtail output in the state’s Bakken shale field, a state official said The state’s crude oil output sat at 1.22 million barrels in October, a 0.02% decline from the prior month, North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms said at a monthly briefing, citing the latest available data.
North Dakota oil production remained below the 1.4 million bpd output it maintained in the months before COVID-19 began to slash global fuel demand. The state’s oil rig count was down 75% from January to October.
“This was probably the third worst year I have ever seen for the oil industry,” said Helms, referencing his roughly 40 years in the industry.
An oil market crash in the late 1990s brought North Dakota down to zero drilling rigs and the oil price collapse in the mid-1980s cut the number of rigs down to the teens from about 150 rigs, he said.
“All in all, though, it was a pretty terrible year for the industry,” Helms added.
The current price of crude produced in the Bakken, the second-largest U.S. shale basin, is about $37 a barrel, a drop off from the more than $60 a barrel before the health crisis curtailed fuel demand, the state said in its monthly report.
In 2021, Helms said he expected weak fuel demand caused by the pandemic, coupled with a push for cleaner energy as opposed to crude oil, to continue pressure oil prices and production.