石油设备网讯 据路透社伦敦报道，周二，荷兰皇家壳牌表示，尽管石油和天然气价格前景不明朗，但公司仍表现出信心，计划在2020年后增加支出和股息。
在一次策略更新中,壳牌表示，公司正在履行其先前的承诺，即增加现金生产，并在明年年底前实施全球最大之一的250亿美元股票回购计划。
壳牌是继埃克森美孚之后全球第二大上市石油和天然气公司，在2016年以530亿美元收购规模较小的BG集团以及2014年末油价暴跌之后，经历了大幅成本削减。
尽管油价复苏缓慢且坎坷，但它去年公布的利润仍是同行中最高的，而且收入比往年大幅增加。
壳牌首席执行长Ben van Beurden在一份声明中说：“正是我们战略的成功和今天交付的力量给了我们对未来的信心。”
壳牌表示，到2025年，其自由现金流（可用于支付股息和股票回购的现金），在布伦特原油价格为每桶60美元的基础上，将每年升至350亿美元左右，并预计到明年年底实现的自由现金流为280至330亿美元。
该公司表示，2021年至2025年期间，现金交付创造了以股息和股票回购的形式向股东发放1250亿美元或更多的可能性，与2016年至2020年的900亿美元相比，这一比例更高。
该公司预计，一旦在2020年年底完成其在收购BG集团后承诺的250亿美元股票回购，将增加向股东发放的股息。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
Shell eyes dividend and spending boost after 2020
Royal Dutch Shell on Tuesday outlined plans to increase spending and dividends after 2020 in a show of confidence by the energy company despite an uncertain outlook for oil and gas prices.
In a strategy update, the Anglo-Dutch company said it was on track to deliver its previous commitments to increase cash generation and carry out one of the world’s largest share buyback programs of $25 billion by the end of next year.
Shell, the world’s second-largest listed oil and gas company after Exxon Mobil , underwent deep cost cuts following the 2016 acquisition of smaller rival BG Group for $53 billion and the collapse of oil prices in late 2014.
Despite a slow and bumpy recovery in oil prices, it reported the largest profit among its peers last year and vastly increased its revenue from previous years.
“It is the success of our strategy and strength of our delivery today that gives us confidence for the future,” Shell Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said in a statement.
Shell said its free cash flow - cash available to pay for dividends and share buybacks - is set to rise to around $35 billion per year by 2025 at a Brent crude oil price of $60 per barrel.
That compares with $28-33 billion in free cash flow it expects to deliver by the end of next year.
It said the cash delivery “creates the potential to distribute $125 billion or more to shareholders” in the form of dividends and share buybacks between 2021 and 2025.
That compares with distributions of around $90 billion between 2016 and 2020.
It expects to increase its dividend payouts to shareholders once it completes a $25 billion share buyback by the end of 2020 it had promised following the BG acquisition.
