據油價網2020年7月27日休斯敦報道，美國能源信息署(EIA)周一公布的最新統計數據顯示，在油價暴跌后不久，美國40家上市石油生產公司在今年第一季度減記了總計480億美元的資產。

根據EIA對數據提供商Evaluate能源公司匯編的公開提交財務報表的分析，上述40家上市石油公司在美國的原油和其它液體日產量為610萬桶，約占美國第一季度液體總產量的30%。

這40家上市石油公司中包括西方石油公司、阿帕奇公司、康喬資源公司、康菲公司、依歐格資源公司、馬拉松石油公司、諾布爾能源公司、歐芹能源公司、惠廷石油公司和Extraction 石油和天然氣公司等。

據EIA估計，這40家約占美國液體總產量大約30%的石油公司在今年第一季度的資產減值規模至少是自2015年以來最大的資產減值。

6月份，僅美國西方石油公司就警告說，由于今年早些時候油價暴跌，預計第二季度其油氣資產的稅后減損將高達90億美元。

來自德勤會計師事務所最近的一項研究指出，價格暴跌，經濟放緩和需求崩潰在第二季度可能促使頁巖鉆井公司總計損害或減記他們資產價值高達3000億美元，預計在今年第二季度出現重大損害。德勤會計師事務所表示，一些石油公司的債務可能變得無法支撐，將導致行業破產和合并的連鎖反應。

李峻 編譯自 油價網

原文如下：

U.S. Oil Firms Wrote Down $48 Billion In Assets After Price Crash

Forty publicly traded U.S. oil producers wrote down a collective US$48 billion worth of the value of their assets in the first quarter of 2020, just after oil prices collapsed, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Monday.

According to EIA’s analysis of publicly filed financial statements, compiled by data provider Evaluate Energy, the 40 listed companies in the analysis produced a total of 6.1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil and other liquids in the United States, or about 30 percent of all the U.S. liquids production in Q1.

The companies include Occidental, Apache Corporation, Concho Resources, ConocoPhillips, EOG Resources, Marathon Oil Corp, Noble Energy, Parsley Energy, Whiting Petroleum Corporation, and Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc, among others.

The 40 companies representing around 30 percent of U.S. liquids production made the largest asset impairments in Q1 2020 since at least 2015, according to EIA estimates.

Occidental Petroleum alone warned last month that it expects to book after-tax impairments of up to US$9 billion of its oil and gas assets in the second quarter due to the collapse in oil prices earlier this year.

A recent study from Deloitte pointed out that the collapse in prices, the economic slowdown, and the crash in demand in Q2 could prompt shale drillers in aggregate to impair or write-down the value of their assets by as much as US$300 billion, with significant impairments expected in the second quarter of 2020. Debts for some companies could become unsustainable, leading to a chain reaction of insolvencies and consolidation in the industry, Deloitte said.