據安迅思3月16日消息稱，據路透社報道，雪佛龍概述了到2025年擴大石油和天然氣生產的計劃，但不會大幅增加支出，并承諾限制其碳排放的增長速度。

2020年，由于大規模封鎖導致的能源需求下降導致行業陷入混亂，導致雪佛龍公司自2016年以來首次出現55.4億美元的年度虧損。

投資者一直在向雪佛龍和其他石油公司施壓，要求它們保持支出不變，減少導致氣候變化的排放。

雪佛龍首席執行官Michael Wirth在周二的報告中對分析師表示，無論油價如何波動，雪佛龍都可以實現其產量和碳排放目標。

“我們不會押注更高的價格來拯救我們，” 他說，這顯然是在挖苦埃克森和其它指望油價反彈來彌補派息和償還債務的公司。到2025年，雪佛龍的資本回報率(衡量公司投資效率的指標)可以翻一番以上，達到10%以上。

盡管如此，一些分析人士對氣候和排放目標并不滿意，認為它們過于溫和。股價從一年高點小幅下跌至109.50美元。

加拿大皇家銀行資本市場分析師Biraj Borkhataria表示，預計到2025年，扣除股息和項目支出后的自由現金流將達到250億美元，這“令人失望”。

他補充說，碳強度目標“落后于行業平均水平”，“專注于其可控元素”，而不是建立新的業務線”，這可能有助于利潤。

朱佳妮 摘譯自 安迅思

原文如下：

Chevron to slow carbon emissions, raise oil and gas output through 2025

Chevron outlined a plan to expand oil and gas production through 2025, but without spending significantly more, and pledged to limit the pace of growth of its carbon emissions, reported Reuters.

Falling energy demand due to pandemic-driven lockdowns sent the industry into a tailspin in 2020 and led Chevron to a USD5.54 billion annual loss, its first since 2016.

Investors have been pressuring Chevron and other oil companies to hold spending flat and reduce emissions that contribute to climate change.

Chief Executive Officer Michael Wirth told analysts in a presentation on Tuesday that Chevron can achieve its output and carbon goals regardless of oil price fluctuations.

"We're not betting on higher prices to bail us out," he said in an apparent dig at Exxon and others counting on oil's rebound to cover dividends and debt repayments. By 2025, Chevron can more than double its return on capital employed, a measure of how efficiently a company invests, to more than 10%.

Still, some analysts were unimpressed with the climate and emissions goals, viewing them as too modest. Shares dipped a fraction from a one-year high to USD109.50.

A forecast of USD25 billion in free cash flow through 2025 after dividends and project outlays is "underwhelming," said Biraj Borkhataria, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets.

The carbon intensity goals "lag the industry average" and "focus on its controllable elements" rather than building new business lines," that could contribute to profits, he added.