据2月4日Oil Now报道，受新冠肺炎疫情的影响，美国石油巨头埃克森美孚虽然经历了迄今为止最具挑战性的一年，但2020年该公司在南美取得了重大进展，将其业务扩张到了东北沿岸的多个盆地。
投资者关系副总裁史蒂文·利特尔顿表示:“尽管受新冠肺炎疫情相关的挑战相当大，但上游业务仍保持了今年以来最佳的可靠性表现。我们继续在圭亚那和巴西进行积极的勘探项目，并在第四季度宣布在苏里南获得了油气发现，这扩大了埃克森美孚在南美洲的资源地位。”
去年12月，该公司在苏里南52区块的Sloanea-1勘探井实现了盈利。该井使用Maersk钻机钻至4780米的总深度，在Campanian段遇到了几个储层质量良好的含油气砂岩包裹体。
埃克森美孚希望复制在圭亚那的成功，因为苏里南的首次发现提升了该地区的地位。
利特尔顿告诉投资者:“我们果断地应对了2020年前所未有的市场形势，利用我们的全球项目架构，我们能够推迟支出和优化项目，以保持我们业界领先的投资组合的长期价值。上游天然气和液化天然气价格的上涨以及圭亚那液体燃料产量的增加也使我们受益匪浅。”
圭亚那还能从其50%的石油利润以及特许权使用费中获得约2亿美元的收入。政府去年出口了大约400万桶Liza原油。
此外，埃克森美孚首席执行官Darren Woods在评论2020年圭亚那的表现时表示，Liza二期和Payara项目的开发工作正按计划进行：“我们在圭亚那推进了Liza二期项目和Payara项目的开发，并继续取得三个新发现，将斯塔布罗克区块的可开采资源估计值提高至近90亿桶。”
该公司于2020年1月在Stabroek区块宣布了Uaru油田的发现，并在Yellowtail-2和Redtail区块取得了更大的成功。
冯于荣 摘译自Oil Now
原文如下：
Exxon extended position in South America last year despite pandemic woes
Although faced with its most challenging year to date due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. oil major ExxonMobil made significant strides in South America last year, extending its position across multiple basins off the continents northeastern coast.
“Despite considerable challenges associated with the pandemic, the upstream business matched its best ever reliability performance for the year,” said Steven Littleton, Vice President of Investor Relations. “We continue to progress active exploration programmes in Guyana and Brazil, and in the fourth quarter, announced a hydrocarbon discovery in Suriname which extends ExxonMobil’s resource position in South America.”
The company hit pay at the Sloanea-1 exploration well at Block 52 offshore Suriname in December. The well was drilled to a total depth of 4,780 metres using the Maersk Developer rig and encountered several hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone packages with good reservoir qualities in the Campanian section.
ExxonMobil hoping to replicate Guyana success as 1st Suriname discovery extends position in region.
“We decisively responded to the unprecedented market conditions in 2020 leveraging our global projects organisation, we were able to defer spend and optimise projects to preserve the long-term value of our industry-leading portfolio,” Littleton told investors Guyana was also able to earn around US$200 million in revenue from its 50 percent share of profit oil as well as from royalty payments. The government exported approximately 4 million barrels of Liza Crude last year.
Also commenting “We progressed Liza Phase Two and Payara Developments in Guyana and continued our exploration success with three new discoveries, increasing the recoverable resource estimate The company announced the Uaru discovery at the Stabroek block in January 2020 and this was followed by more success at the Yellowtail-2 and Redtail prospects later in the year.