Frontera能源公司削減今年產(chǎn)量目標30%

據(jù)石油新聞2020年8月7日哥倫比亞波哥大報道，總部位于多倫多其主要業(yè)務(wù)在哥倫比亞的加拿大油氣生產(chǎn)商Frontera能源公司官員8月7日在電話會議上表示，該公司日前下調(diào)了其今年全年生產(chǎn)目標，至4.6萬桶油當量/天，比去年12月份宣布的6.5萬桶油當量/天下降了30%。

Frontera能源公司首席執(zhí)行官理查德·赫伯特表示，該公司去年全年產(chǎn)量為7.1萬桶油當量/天，是哥倫比亞第二大石油和天然氣生產(chǎn)商，僅次于哥倫比亞國家石油公司（Ecopetrol）。

Frontera能源公司將此次產(chǎn)量目標調(diào)整歸咎于新冠病毒疫情大流行，以及“在我們行業(yè)過去40年所見的最黯淡的狀況”。Frontera能源公司今年的資本支出計劃已削減了三分之二。

但公司高管們堅稱，在大幅削減成本后，F(xiàn)rontera能源公司現(xiàn)在擁有強勁的現(xiàn)金收支表，“公司能夠生存下去，甚至繁榮發(fā)展”。Frontera能源公司是曾尋求破產(chǎn)保護的Pacific Rubiales能源公司的繼承公司，后者在10年前在哥倫比亞東部Meta省重油油田的開發(fā)中發(fā)揮了核心作用。

Frontera能源公司高管原計劃在此次電話會議上討論其今年第二季度的業(yè)績，其中包括第二季度產(chǎn)量驟降至4.2597萬桶油當量/天，比去年同期的7.4385萬桶油當量/天下降42.7%，比今年第一季度的6.3572萬桶油當量/天下降33%。

李峻 編譯自 石油新聞

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Frontera Energy cuts 2020 production target by 30%

Frontera Energy, the Toronto-based oil and natural gas producer with its principal operations in Colombia, lowered its full-year 2020 production target to 46,000 barrels per day of crude and equivalents, down 30% from a goal of 65,000 boe/d announced in December 2019, officials said during an Aug. 7 conference call.

CEO Richard Herbert said the company, which with 71,000 boe/d of full-year output in 2019 was Colombia's second largest oil and gas producer after state-controlled giant Ecopetrol, blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the revision and the "bleakest conditions seen in our industry in the last 40 years." The company's planned capital expenditure for 2020 has been cut by two thirds.

But executives insisted that after severe cost cutting Frontera now enjoys a strong cash balance and "can survive and even thrive." Frontera is the successor company to Pacific Rubiales, which sought bankruptcy protection and played a central role in opening up Colombia's heavy crude fields in eastern Meta province a decade ago.

Frontera executives scheduled the conference call to discuss its second-quarter 2020 results, which including a precipitous drop in Q2 production to 42,597 boe/d, down 42.7% from 74,385 boe/d in the year-ago period, and off 33% from 63,572 boe/d in 2020's first quarter.