挪威2021年石油投资降幅将低于预期

原标题：挪威2021年石油投资降幅将低于预期

    中国石化新闻网讯 据12月17日MENAFN消息：挪威石油和天然气协会(NOG)周三表示，与2020年相比，明年挪威海上石油和天然气投资将下降4.2%，低于该行业在2020年初担心的水平。

    明年，挪威周边海域的油气开发总投资预计将下降到205亿美元(1784亿挪威克朗)，与挪威统计局对该国2020年油气投资的最新估计相比，下降4.2%。

    调查显示，该行业担心到2022年底，投资将比2019年水平减少一半。该协会指出，危机开始后的首次分析显示，政府支持该行业的措施发挥了作用。

    油价暴跌后，挪威在4月底通过了支持油气行业和供应链的措施，包括对税收制度进行临时改革，以帮助企业保持流动性，并继续其计划中的项目。

    该协会表示，在2022年到2024年之间，挪威每年的石油投资将在184亿美元(1600亿克朗)到195.5亿美元(1700亿克朗)之间。

    挪威石油和能源部本月早些时候表示，西欧最大的石油生产国挪威将在年底结束政府实施的减产措施。由于今年春天需求和价格暴跌，不属于欧佩克+联盟的挪威将在2020年下半年减产。

    冯娟 摘译自 MENAFN

    原文如下：

    Norway's 2021 Oil Investments Set To Fall Less Than Feared

    Investments in oil and gas offshore Norway are set to decline by 4.2 percent next year compared to 2020, a smaller drop than what the industry feared in early 2020, the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association said on Wednesday.

    Next year, total investments in oil and gas development in the seas around Norway are expected to fall to US$20.5 billion (178.4 billion Norwegian crowns), down by 4.2 percent compared to the latest estimate by Statistics Norway for oil and gas investments in the country for 2020. However, the decline expected next year is now expected to be less severe than what was thought at the beginning of the pandemic-induced crisis, the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, NOG, said.

    A survey in April showed that the industry feared investments would halve by the end of 2022 compared to 2019 levels, the association said, noting that its first analysis after the beginning of the crisis shows that government measures to support the sector had worked.

    Following the oil price collapse, Norway passed at the end of April measures to support the oil and gas industry and the supply chain, including by introducing temporary changes to the taxation system to help companies preserve liquidity and continue with their planned projects.

    The mood in the industry is changing for the better, as many jobs have been saved and projects are being implemented, Anniken Hauglie, Director General of The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, said in a statement accompanying the investment analysis today.

    Most of the uncertainty from the spring has been removed, Hauglie added.

    Between 2022 and 2024, oil investment in Norway will range between US$18.4 billion (160 billion crowns) and US$19.55 billion (170 billion crowns) each year, the association says.

    Norway, Western Europe's largest oil producer, will end government-imposed oil production cuts at the end of the year, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy said earlier this month. Norway, which is not part of the OPEC+ coalition, is cutting its oil production in the second half of 2020 because of the slump in demand and prices in the spring of this year.