德州頁岩油產量飆升，美國石油產量接近紀錄

Recently Yahoo News on-line reported the following:

US Oil Production Nears Record as Texas Shale Output Soars

Lucia Kassai and Devika Krishna Kumar

Fri, September 29, 2023 at 10:43 a.m. PDT

(Bloomberg) -- US crude production reached the second-highest level on record in July as output from Texas’s Permian Basin soared to an all-time high.

The nation’s output rose to 12.991 million barrels a day, the highest since a peak of 13 million barrels in November 2019, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. Most of the gain came from Texas, where drillers produced a record 5.63 million barrels a day.

The output growth comes even as explorers dial back activity. The number of rigs searching for oil in the US has contracted by 20% since late November, with the total falling by five this week to 502, according to data released Friday by Baker Hughes Co.

The increased production from the US had helped fill a void in global markets left by output cuts from Saudi Arabia and Russia in recent months, with the country routinely exporting more than 4 million barrels a day. But so far it hasn’t been enough to ease crude prices as the constrained supply picture meets with rising global demand, and dwindling supplies at home may start to slow shipments abroad.

--With assistance from David Wethe.

Translation

（彭博）—隨著德州二疊紀盆地的產量飆升至歷史新高，美國 7 月原油產量達到有記錄以來的第二高水準。

根據能源情報署的數據，該國日產量增加至 1,299.1 萬桶，這是自 2019 年 11 月 1,300 萬桶峰值以來的最高水準。 其中大部分增產來自德州，該州的鑽探商每天生產創紀錄的 563 萬桶石油。

儘管勘探者減少了活動，但產量仍在增加。 Baker Hughes 公司週五公佈的數據顯示，自 11 月底以來，美國尋找石油的鑽井平台數量已減少 20%，本週總數減少 5 座，至 502 座。

美國產量的增加有助於填補近幾個月來沙地阿拉伯和俄羅斯減產造成的全球市場空白，該國通常每天出口超過 400 萬桶。 但到目前為止，這還不足以緩解原油價格，因為供應緊張與全球需求不斷增長相相出現，國內供應減少可能開始減低海外輸出。

So, US crude production reached the second-highest level on record in July. The increased production from the US could only partially helped fill a void in global markets left by output cuts from Saudi Arabia and Russia. Global oil price will not change much unless there is a drop in demand.