據彭博社7月8日報道，在油價暴跌迫使阿爾伯塔省油砂生產商每日減產至多100萬桶的數個月后，加拿大至少有20%的停產產量正在恢復。

隨著油價升至每桶40美元以上，Cenovus Energy Inc.、Husky Energy Inc.和Baytex Energy Corp.等公司恢復了停產產量。加拿大帝國石油公司 ( Imperial Oil Ltd )首席執行官科爾森(Brad Corson)表示，預計在第二季度大部分維護工作結束后，上游生產將完全恢復。ARC能源公司周二表示已恢復產量。

Cenovus首席執行官Alex Pourbaix在道明證券網絡直播會議上表示："我們看到了恢復生產的強烈價格信號。看到我們的生產恢復到滿負荷生產狀態，沒有人會感到驚訝。就目前的水平而言，我們的現金流為正值。”

長期以來，由于石油管道供應有限，必須運輸數千英里的原油價格存在大幅折扣，油砂公司在疫情扼殺能源需求時迅速減產。據阿爾伯塔省估計，該省的石油產量下降了近25%。

王佳晶 摘譯自 彭博社

原文如下：

Oil-Sands Explorers Restore Some 20% of Shut-in Crude Production

At least 20% of shut-in Canadian production is being restored, just months after the price crash forced producers in Alberta’s oil sands to slash up to 1 million barrels a day of output.

Cenovus Energy Inc., Husky Energy Inc. and Baytex Energy Corp. are among companies that have resumed shut-in production as prices rise above $40 a barrel. Imperial Oil Ltd., operator of the Kearl oil sands mine and Cold Lake wells, also expects to return to full upstream production after most maintenance is wrapped up in the second quarter, Chief Executive Officer Brad Corson said. ARC Resources Ltd. on Tuesday said it had restored output.

“We’re seeing a strong price signal to bring production back,” Cenovus CEO Alex Pourbaix said on a TD Securities conference webcast. “Nobody should be surprised to see our production moving back to full production capacity. We are significantly cash-flow positive at the levels we’re at now.”

Long exposed to steep price discounts for crude that must travel thousands of miles amid limited pipeline access, oil-sands companies were quick to slash production when the pandemic obliterated energy demand. Alberta’s oil output fell by almost 25%, according to provincial estimates.