天然气在美国石油生产商收入中所占份额渐增

　　中国石化新闻网讯 据油价网报道，由于天然气价格上涨，美国石油生产商从天然气中获得的收入份额越来越大。

　　美国能源信息署(EIA)表示，今年第一季度，天然气在美国石油生产商收入中所占份额跃升至14%，至少是2018年以来的最高水平。

　　除综合性石油巨头外，今年迄今为止，美国主要从事原油生产的54家上市石油生产商的天然气收入占总收入的比例达到了两位数。 美国基准天然气价格在德州冻结期间上涨，并在夏季结束时反弹，原因是美国液化天然气(LNG)出口创纪录，而美国整体天然气产量持平。

　　据EIA估计，今年第二季度，54家美国石油生产商的收入中天然气将占10%。

　　EIA说，考虑到目前世界各地——包括美国——天然气价格的上涨，由于亨利中心价格在9月中旬以来超过了5美元/百万英热单位，美国石油天然气生产商收入预计在今年剩下的时间里将保持在高水平。

　　EIA指出，美国政府的上述分析不包括综合性石油巨头或以生产天然气为主要业务的公司，因此这些趋势不能被视为反映整个行业的行为。

　　美国基准天然气价格在过去一年里翻了一番，尽管最大的天然气生产盆地阿巴拉契亚盆地在今年上半年实现了自2008年开始马塞勒斯和尤蒂卡页岩天然气生产以来的最高平均产量，但天然气价格还是上涨了。

　　美国的干气总产量正在上升。 但其增长速度还不足以抵消美国通过管道和液化天然气货物的天然气出口激增，今年美国的天然气出口创下了历史新高。 在过去几个月里，炎热的夏季热浪和低天然气库存也推高了天然气价格。

　　李峻 编译自 油价网

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　　Natural Gas Makes Up Larger Share Of U.S. Oil Producers' Revenues

　　Thanks to higher natural gas prices, U.S. oil producers are generating a larger share of their revenues from natural gas.

　　The share of natural gas in revenues jumped to 14 percent in the first quarter of 2021—the highest since at least 2018, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) says.

　　Excluding the integrated majors, a total of 54 listed producers primarily engaged in crude oil production have seen their revenues from natural gas at a double-digit share of total revenues so far this year, as benchmark U.S. natural gas prices jumped during the Texas Freeze and rallied at the end of the summer on the back of record U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and flattish overall gas production in America.

　　As per EIA estimates, the share of natural gas in the revenues of the 54 U.S. oil producers stood at 10 percent in the second quarter of 2021.

　　Considering the current rally in natural gas prices around the world, including in the U.S., with Henry Hub prices at over $5 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) since mid-September, revenues from gas for the U.S. oil producers are expected to remain at high levels throughout the rest of the year, the EIA said.

　　The administration's analysis does not include the integrated oil majors or companies that produce natural gas as their primary business, so these trends cannot be considered as reflecting behavior in the industry as a whole, the EIA noted.

　　The benchmark U.S. natural gas price has doubled over the past year, and prices have rallied despite the fact that the biggest gas-producing basin, Appalachia, saw in the first half of 2021 its highest average output since natural gas production in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations started in 2008.

　　Overall American dry natural gas production is rising. But it's not increasing so quickly as to offset surging U.S. gas exports via pipelines and LNG cargoes, which have been setting all-time high records this year. Scorching summer heatwaves and low natural gas inventories have also driven natural gas prices higher over the past few months.