美国两家主要页岩生产公司计划大幅裁员

    中国石化新闻网讯 据油价网2020年8月25日报道，不愿透露姓名的消息人士向路透社记者透露，美国两家主要页岩生产商计划开始大幅削减工作岗位。

    帕斯利能源公司计划把已创建的496个工作岗位削减10%，而先锋自然资源公司裁员的人数仍是一个秘密，但其总员工人数约为2300人。

    与业内大多数页岩生产公司一样，这两家页岩钻井公司在第二季度都出现了亏损，原因是油价暴跌和新冠肺炎疫情大流行病对它们造成了沉重打击，使它们难以东山再起。

    早些时候曾呼吁德州强制减产的帕斯利能源公司披露，其今年第二季净亏损大约4亿美元。从积极的方面来看，帕斯利能源公司在本季度拥有正的自由现金流，租赁运营费用仅为每桶3.69美元。不过，这并不足以让该公司对最近的将来感到乐观，该公司近日把今年剩余时间的油价预期维持在每桶35美元的低位。

    对于大多数页岩领域生产商来说，这个价格太低，因此裁员也就不足为奇了。德州能源生产商联盟今年早些时候曾说，自2月份以来，石油行业的失业人数超过了4.1万人。仅在4月份——油价上涨最严重的一个月——德州石油行业就减少了2.5万个工作岗位。

    先锋自然资源公司是美国已经在裁员的公司之一。先锋自然资源公司第二季度净亏损4.39亿美元，今年早些时候曾裁员50人以应对危机。与同行一样，先锋自然资源公司也计划在今年年底前降低石油产量。

    页岩生产公司是受危机冲击最严重的企业之一，尤其是因为它们有沉重的债务负担，其中许多企业的债务负担在危机期间只增不减。先锋自然资源公司最近发行了11亿美元的新债。尽管帕斯利能源公司自称其保本水平为每桶原油35美元，但由于价格环境仍相对不利，帕斯利能源公司迄今尚未发行新债。

    李峻 编译自 油价网

    原文如下：

    Two Major Shale Drillers Plan Layoffs

    Two shale producers have plans to start cutting jobs, sources in the know who wished to remain unnamed have told Reuters.

    Parsley Energy plans to cut 10 percent of all 496 jobs it has created. The number of layoffs at Pioneer Natural Resources remains a secret, but its total workforce is about 2,300 people.

    Both companies, like most in the industry, swung to losses in the second quarter as the oil price collapse and the pandemic pummeled them into the ground and made it hard to get up again.

    Parsley, which had earlier called for mandatory production cuts in Texas, reported a net loss of some $400 million for the second quarter of the year. On the positive side, the company boasted positive free cash flow during the quarter and a lease operating expense of just $3.69 per barrel. Still, this was not enough to make it optimistic for the immediate future and the company kept its oil price assumptions for the remainder of 2020 low, at $35 per barrel.

    This is too low for most producers in the shale patch so the job cuts come as no surprise. They are only the latest additions to an already strong trend across the industry: the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers said earlier this year job losses since February exceeded 41,000. In April alone—the hardest month for oil prices—Texas oil shed as many as 25,000 jobs.

    Pioneer is one of the companies that are already laying off staff. The company, which posted a net loss of $439 million for the second quarter, cut 50 jobs earlier this year in response to the crisis. Like its peers, Pioneer is planning lower oil production through the end of this year.

    Shale producers have been among the hardest hit by the crisis, not least because of their heavy debt burdens, many of which have only gotten heavier amid the crisis. Pioneer recently issued $1.1 billion in new debt. Parsley has not issued new debt, but the price environment remains relatively hostile, even though the company boasts breakeven levels of $35 per barrel of crude.