据今日油价网站1月5日消息 加拿大石油业预计，2021年将是从2020年新冠疫情造成的经济低迷中复苏的一年，预计今年加拿大石油行业的总投资将比去年增长12%。
卡尔加里先驱报援引加拿大石油生产商协会（CAPP）的预测报道，预计2021年油砂作业和常规油气生产的综合投资将增至近210亿美元（270亿加元），而2020年的投资额为190亿美元（240亿加元）。
CAPP副总裁Ben Brunnen向卡尔加里先驱报的Chris Varcoe表示：“相对于2020年，加拿大西部经济体将获得20亿美元的额外投资，表明能源市场将出现一定程度的稳定和复苏。”
根据CAPP 2020年11月资本投资和钻井预测，2019年勘探与生产（E&P）资本支出为270亿美元（350亿加元），比2018年下降10%。由于流感大流行，对2020年投资的预测显示，投资额为190亿美元（240亿加元），与2019年相比，投资出现了前所未有的32%的下滑。
该协会预计，2020年将钻探约3000口油气井，而2021年钻探的油气井数量将增至约3300口。
在艾伯塔省政府表示将在去年年底取消石油产量限制后，石油公司计划提高产量。
塞诺佛斯能源首席执行官Alex Pourbaix 11月在接受路透社采访时表示：“未来几个月，我们将看到相当一部分资金回流。”
自2020年12月起，艾伯塔省取消了强制削减石油产量的规定，因为管道上有足够的空间让生产商利用现有的管道容量并创造就业机会。
王磊 摘译自 今日油价
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Investment In Canada’s Oil Industry Set To Grow 12% In 2021
Canada’s oil industry expects that 2021 will be the year of recovery from the downturn caused by the pandemic in 2020, with total investments in Canada’s oil sector expected to increase by 12 percent this year compared to last year.
Combined investments in oil sands operations and conventional oil and gas production are expected to rise to nearly US$21 billion (C$27 billion) in 2021, compared to US$19 billion (C$24 billion) in 2020, Calgary Herald reports, citing forecasts from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).
“An extra $2 billion of investment into the Western Canadian economies, relative to 2020, I’d say is a pretty significant vote of confidence there will be some stability and recovery in energy markets,” CAPP vice president Ben Brunnen told Calgary Herald’s Chris Varcoe.
According to CAPP’s November 2020 capital investment and drilling forecast, exploration and production (E&P) capital spending was US$27 billion (C$35 billion) in 2019, down by 10 percent compared to 2018. Due to the pandemic, the forecast for the 2020 investment showed an unprecedented 32-percent slump from 2019 to US$19 billion (C$24 billion).
The association expected that around 3,000 oil and gas wells would have been drilled in 2020, while the number would increase to around 3,300 oil and gas wells drilled in 2021.
Oil companies have plans to ramp up their production after the Alberta government said it would remove oil production limits at the end of last year.
“We’re going to see a significant amount of that come back over the next few months,” Alex Pourbaix, chief executive at Cenovus Energy, told Reuters in an interview in November.
The province of Alberta lifted the mandatory curtailment of oil production as of December 2020 since there is enough space on pipelines to allow producers to utilize available pipeline capacity and create jobs.