據油氣新聞6月17日消息，美國跨國能源公司Phillips 66董事長兼首席執行官格雷格·加蘭德(Greg Garland)在5月初舉行的公司第一季度電話會議上表示:“就像在當前的危機中一樣，流動性為王。”

與上游行業一樣，美國中游行業也在努力保持流動性，以應對前所未有的市場狀況。隨著石油和天然氣生產商削減預算和鉆井活動，疫情導致的油價和需求暴跌趕上了美國能源基礎設施計劃。

為了應對可以預想的低吞吐量，并努力保持流動性，Phillips 66和美國其他中游運營商最近推遲了幾條輸油管道的服役日期和最終投資決定，并縮減了其他管道的輸油產能。

根據EIA最新更新的“液體管道項目數據庫”，截至6月4日，美國有5條管道以及通往墨西哥的此類管道被暫停。

去年，共有14條原油管道完工，比2018年的11條有所增加，因為中游運營商抓住機會擴大了管道基礎設施，以便將石油產量從二疊紀盆地輸送到美國墨西哥灣沿岸的煉油廠和出口中心。

EIA的數據庫顯示，截至今年4月，已經完成了3個原油管道項目，這些都是新的管道項目，而不是現有管道的擴建。

裘寅 編譯自 油氣新聞

原文如下：

U.S.Energy Infrastructure Hit Hard By Pandemic

“And like in the current crisis, liquidity is king,” Phillips 66 chairman and chief executive Greg Garland said on the company’s Q1 conference call in early May.

Like the upstream, America’s midstream sector is also grappling with preserving liquidity in response to unprecedented market conditions. The oil price and demand crash in the COVID-19 pandemic caught up with U.S. energy infrastructure plans as oil and gas producers slashed budgets and drilling activity.

In response to expected lower throughput volumes and in an attempt to preserve liquidity, Phillips 66 and other midstream operators in the United States have recently deferred in-service dates and final investment decisions on several oil pipelines and scaled back the capacity of others.

According to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest update of its Liquids Pipeline Projects Database, five pipelines in the U.S. and such crossing into Mexico were on hold as of June 4.

Last year, a total of 14 crude oil pipelines were completed, up from 11 in 2018, as midstream operators seized the opportunity to expand pipeline infrastructure to take surging oil production from the Permian basin to the refinery and export centers along the U.S.

Gulf Coast.

This year through April, three crude oil pipeline projects were completed, and all of them were new pipeline projects, not extensions of existing pipelines, according to the EIA’s database.