據路透社10月7日報道，新冠肺炎疫情中斷了挪威海上油氣項目的開發，推高了成本，推遲了挪國油Equinor 等公司的創效周期。

政府文件顯示，在通脹調整的情況下，正在開展的項目成本較一年前增加了132億挪威克朗（14億美元），原因疫情限制措施使多個油田的建設陷入停滯。

Equinor在另一份聲明中表示:“新冠肺炎疫情和挪威貨幣貶值對一些項目產生了負面影響，但合并后的項目組合仍非常有彈性。”

政府的預算顯示，由于計劃延期，挪威明年的石油產量預計為215萬桶/天，略低于一年前預測的224萬桶/天。

預計2021年天然氣產量為1170億立方米，低于一年前預測的1210億立方米。挪威2021年的財政預算顯示，Equinor的Martin Linge油氣田目前預計將耗資608億克朗，高于一年前估計的561億克朗。

與此同時，公司旗下Johan Castberg Arctic油田項目預計成本為534億克朗，高于此前預計的490億克朗。

Equinor表示，通脹調整后，Martin Linge的36億克朗成本增幅中，有一半受到疫情的影響。

疫情還中斷了Johan Castberg在新加坡造船廠的浮式生產、儲卸裝置(FPSO)的建設，同時該公司還遇到了技術問題。

這兩個項目都被推遲了一年左右，Martin Linge預計將在2021年夏天投產，Johan Castberg預計將在2023年第四季度投產。

Njord Future項目的成本也有所上升，計劃的啟動日期已被推遲到2021年。

王佳晶 摘譯自 路透社

原文如下：

Pandemic pushes up cost of Norway's oil and gas projects

The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted the development of Norway's offshore oil and gas projects, pushing up costs and postponing startups, the government and oil company Equinor EQNR.OL said on Wednesday.

The costs of ongoing projects rose by 13.2 billion Norwegian crowns ($1.4 billion) from a year ago on an inflation-adjusted basis, government documents showed, as COVID-19 restrictions stalled construction at several fields.

“The COVID-19 pandemic and weakened Norwegian (currency) have negatively impacted some of the projects, but the combined project portfolio is still very resilient,” Equinor said in a separate statement.

Following the delays, Norway’s oil output for next year is now expected to be 2.15 million barrels per day, slightly less than the 2.24 million predicted for 2021 one year ago, the government’s budget showed.

Gas production is expected to be 117 billion cubic metres (bcm), less than 121 bcm forecast a year ago.

Equinor’s Martin Linge oil and gas field is now expected to cost 60.8 billion crowns, up from an estimate of 56.1 billion a year ago, Norway’s 2021 fiscal budget showed.

The company’s Johan Castberg Arctic oilfield, meanwhile, is now expected to cost 53.4 billion crowns, up from 49 billion crowns previously, the government said.

Cost overruns also hit Equinor's Njord Future, Repsol's REP.MC Yme and other developments.

In March, the long-delayed Martin Linge development became the first offshore field to be hit by the pandemic when installation work was halted after an employee tested positive for the virus.

Half of the inflation-adjusted cost increase of 3.6 billion crowns for Martin Linge was down to infection control measures, Equinor said.

The pandemic also interrupted construction of the Johan Castberg’s floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) at a yard in Singapore, while the company also discovered technical problems.

Both projects have been delayed by about a year, with Martin Linge now expected to come on stream in the summer of 2021 and Johan Castberg in the fourth quarter of 2023.