2021年美国石油和天然气公司产生737亿美元的利润
尽管油价和利润都在上涨，但美国油气公司在资本支出方面一直很谨慎
去年美国油气公司资本支出总数为1441亿美元
据美国油价网8月18日报道，在油价上涨的背景下，美国石油和天然气公司2021年产生737亿美元的利润，资本支出达到1441亿美元。
这是安永会计师事务所（EY）在一份题为“美国油气储量、产量和环境、社会和公司治理（ESG）基准研究”报告中披露的数据。
这份研究报告详细介绍了美国油气公司最新的生产趋势，以及50家最大的公共勘探和生产公司如何改善其ESG地位，同时还报告了利润、收入和向股东返还的现金等情况。
这也是一个相当大的数额，2021年为181亿美元，比2020年的81亿美元增长122%。
报告指出，尽管价格上涨推高利润和现金回报，但由于转型的推动，美国油气企业一直对资本支出持谨慎态度。
报告的作者写道：“石油和天然气公司要扮演一个具有挑战性的角色：为全球消费者和客户提供安全、负担得起的能源，同时应对气候变化的迫切需求。”
即使在最好的时代，这也是一项具有挑战性的任务，而现在不是最好的时代，这使得情况相当复杂。
报告作者说：“因此，尽管现在需要增加产品，但历史上追随天价大宗商品价格的投资并没有实现。事实上，2022年安永美国石油和天然气储量、产量和ESG基准研究发现，在过去5年里，扩展和发现的支出排名第二最低水平。”
这使得安永的这份报告成为越来越多报告中的最新一份，这些报告记录了油气行业在适应长期不确定的环境时发生的重大转变，在这种环境中，他们不知道对其产品的需求会持续多久。
具有讽刺意味的是，这种不确定性是2021年开始的最新一轮油价飙升的一个重要原因，因为态度的转变使油气勘探和生产企业担心在新供应上花费过多。
李峻 编译自 美国油价网
原文如下：
U.S. Oil And Gas Firms Made $74 Billion In Profits Last Year
· U.S. oil and gas firms generated $73.7 billion in profits in 2021.
· Despite higher oil prices and profits, companies have been careful with capital expenditure.
· Capital expenditure totaled $144.1 billion in 2021.
U.S. oil and gas companies generated profits worth $73.7 billion last year on the back of improving prices, with capital expenditure reaching $144.1 billion.
This is one of the outtakes from a new report from EY titled “U.S. oil and gas reserves, production and ESG benchmarking study.”
The study detailed the latest production trends and how the 50 largest public exploration and production companies can improve their ESG standing, but it also reported on things like profits, revenues, and cash returned to shareholders.
This was also a substantial amount, at $18.1 billion in 2021, up by 122 percent from $8.1 billion a year earlier.
The report noted that despite the higher prices that pushed profits and cash returns much higher, companies have been careful with capital expenditure because of the transition push.
“Oil and gas companies have a challenging role to play: providing secure, affordable energy to consumers and customers globally while also embracing the urgent need to address climate change,” the report’s authors wrote.
This is a challenging task even at the best of times, and these are not the best of times, which has made the situation rather complicated.
“Therefore, despite the need for increased product now, the investments that historically follow sky-high commodity prices have not materialized,” the authors report. “In fact, the 2022 EY US oil and gas reserves, production and ESG benchmarking study found that expenditures for extensions and discoveries ranked at the second-lowest level in the last five years.”
This makes the EY report the latest in an increasingly long series of reports documenting a major shift in the oil and gas industry as it adjusts to a chronically uncertain environment, in which they cannot know how long there will be demand for their product.
Ironically, this uncertainty has been a big reason for the latest price surge that began last year because of that changing attitude that made oil and gas explorers and producers wary of spending too much on new supply.
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