據油價網9月21日報道，巴西能源領域的活動持續升溫。今年1月，這個拉丁美洲最大的經濟體見證了其至關重要的石油工業實現了一個新的里程碑，日均開采創紀錄的316.8萬桶原油。新冠疫情和今年3月的油價暴跌并沒有減緩這個拉丁美洲最大經濟體的石油繁榮。為了應對疫情和油價暴跌，巴西國家石油公司在2020年3月將計劃的年度開支削減了29%，并關閉了淺水平臺。這并沒有妨礙產量的增長。巴西國家石油公司今年第二季度的商業石油日產量同比增長4.1%，達到250萬桶。這主要是由國家石油公司在鹽下油田的大規模擴建推動的，這些油田的日產量增加了近31%，達到150萬桶。有跡象表明，即使新冠疫情的持續影響、石油需求疲軟和價格走弱，也不會阻止巴西國家石油公司石油產量的不斷增長。隨著疫情的威脅減弱，巴西國家石油公司正在加強其海上作業活動，特別是在高產的鹽下油田。巴西國家石油公司計劃本月重啟新油井的連接、進行維護并調試新油井。這將使該國家石油公司和巴西的碳氫化合物產量均獲得強勁增長。

為了遏制新冠疫情的蔓延，巴西采取了暫停非必要業務的措施，并因油價暴跌而關閉非經濟石油生產，但這些措施對巴西的碳氫化合物產量幾乎沒有影響。根據國家石油機構(ANP -葡萄牙語縮寫)的數據顯示，巴西今年8月的油氣日均產量略高于390萬桶石油當量，較7月高出近1%，較去年同期高出2.6%。

桑托斯（Santos）和坎波斯（Campos）盆地是巴西大部分石油和天然氣的產地，7月份油氣產量分別占68%和近26%。巴西國家石油公司是主要的生產商，8月份巴西近95%的石油產量來自該公司。

郝芬 譯自 油價網

原文如下：

Low Oil Prices Haven’t Derailed Brazil’s Offshore Boom

Activity in Brazil’s energy patch keeps ratcheting ever higher. During January 2020, Latin America’s largest economy saw its all-important petroleum industry achieve a new milestone pumping on average a record 3.168 million barrels of crude daily. The COVID-19 pandemic and March 2020 oil price collapse did little to slow the oil boom underway in Latin America’s largest economy. Brazil’s national oil company Petrobras, in March 2020, slashed planned annual spending by 29% and shuttered its shallow water platforms in response to the pandemic and oil price collapse. This did little to stymie production growth. Petrobras’s second quarter 2020 commercial oil output grew 4.1% year over year to almost 2.5 million barrels daily. That was driven primarily by the significant expansion of the national oil company’s presence in the pre-salt fields, where production expanded almost 31% to 1.5 million barrels daily. There are signs that even the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, softer oil demand and weaker prices will not deter Petrobras’ growing petroleum production. Petrobras is in the process of ramping up activities at its offshore operations, notably in the prolific pre-salt fields, as the threat of the pandemic declines. Brazil’s national oil company plans to recommence connecting new wells, conducting maintenance and commissioning new operations this month. That will give both the national oil company’s and Brazil’s hydrocarbon output a solid lift.

The measures taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic by suspending non-essential operations, as well as the shuttering of non-economic oil production because of the price crash, have had little impact on Brazil’s hydrocarbon output. Data from the National Petroleum Agency (ANP – Portuguese acronym) shows Brazil’s August 2020 oil and natural gas production averaged just over 3.9 million barrels of oil equivalent daily, almost 1% greater than July and 2.6% higher than the same period a year earlier.

It is the Santos and Campos Basins which are responsible for producing most of Brazil’s petroleum and natural gas, pumping 68% and almost 26% respectively of July’s hydrocarbon output. Petrobras is the key producer, pumping almost 95% of Brazil’s total August oil output.