石油设备网讯 据今日油价网站4月11日消息 总部位于卡尔加里研究加拿大西部能源工业的一家研究公司XI Technologies的一份新报告显示，在加拿大西部的石油和天然气生产公司的数量在2014年12月（油价濒临崩溃）于2018年12月四年间下降了近17.5%。
根据XI Technologies公司的研究报告，从2014年12月截止到2018年12月底，在加拿大西部沉积盆地（WCSB）报告的生产活跃石油和天然气公司的数量从1616家下降至1334家，下降了282家公司。这家研究公司称，大部分下降可能归因于行业整合，这是行业衰退的典型表现。
行业整合在任何经济衰退中都是自然发生的，这肯定不是加拿大石油和天然气行业第一次经历这种情况，一些实力较弱的公司则失败消失了。
该公司指出：“大中型公司则融合了各自的优势，巩固了资产负债表，并不断成长。大型企业收购各种规模的公司，目的是为了扩大资产基础，获得规模经济，提高现金流和市场地位，为不可避免的市场反弹做准备。”
总部位于卡尔加里的Sayer能源咨询公司高级副总裁Tom Pavic对加拿大媒体表示，2014年至2018年间停止活动的公司可能是缺乏资金从昂贵的非常规油气井生产油气的小型油气公司。
本周早些时候，加拿大能源安全部石油天然气行业劳动力市场信息服务部门PetroLMI的一份报告显示，加拿大石油天然气行业今年可能会再裁员12500个以上的职位，这将使过去五年的总失业率达到2014年总失业率的23%，2014年失业人数为226500。PetroLMI列出今年预计失业人数的原因几乎没有什么意外，其中包括商品价格低、资本支出下降和市场准入不确定性等。
王磊 摘译自 今日油价
原文如下：
Western Canada Sheds 17.5% Of Oil, Gas Producers Since 2014
The number of active oil and gas producing companies in Western Canada declined by nearly 17.5 percent between December 2014, when oil prices were already crashing, and December 2018, a new report from XI Technologies, a Calgary-based research company for the Western Canadian energy industry, showed.
According to XI Technologies, the number of active oil and gas companies with reported production in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) dropped from 1,616 in December 2014 to 1,334 as at the end of December 2018—a drop of 282 companies. Most of the decline could be attributed to industry consolidation, which is typical of any downturn in an industry, the research company said.
“Industry consolidation is a natural occurrence in any downturn, and this is certainly not the first time Canada’s oil and gas sector has experienced it. Some weaker players fail and disappear,” XI Technologies said.
“Juniors and mids merge to combine their strengths, solidify balance sheets, and grow. Majors acquire companies of all sizes in an effort to grow their asset base, gain economies of scale, and enhance their cashflow and market position in preparation for the inevitable market rebound,” the company noted.
The companies that ceased activity between 2014 and 2018 are likely small oil and gas firms who lacked funding to produce oil and gas from expensive unconventional oil and gas wells, Tom Pavic, senior vice-president with Calgary-based Sayer Energy Advisors, told The Canadian Press.
Earlier this week, a report by PetroLMI—the labor market information service for Canada’s oil and gas industry, a division of Energy Safety Canada—found that Canada’s oil and gas industry could shed another 12,500 and more jobs this year, which would bring the total job losses over the past five years to 23 percent of the 2014 total, which stood at 226,500. The reasons PetroLMI lists for the job losses expected for this year contain few surprises, and include “low commodity prices, a decline in capital spending and uncertainty over market access.”
