據3月25日Offshore Energy報道，日本Inpex公司正重新評估其投資計劃，并考慮其他降低成本的措施，以應對當前的市場形勢。

Inpex周三表示,石油和天然氣的價格在很大程度上取決于國際市場走勢,受國際和地區供求波動以及全球經濟和金融市場狀況等諸多因素的影響。

目前，由于能源需求預期將會下降，油價正在迅速下跌。盡管目前無法預測這一嚴峻形勢將會延續多久，但Inpex表示，其政策是通過優化運營、審查全集團的投資計劃和采取進一步的成本削減措施，將油價在一定時間內維持在當前水平的影響減至最低，以維持穩定的商業運作。

該公司表示，將及時披露其在2020年2月12日宣布的截至2020年12月31日的年度綜合經營業績預測。

如果Inpex決定在2020年削減開支，它將與全球許多石油和天然氣運營商一道，其中一些運營商已采取了嚴厲措施，削減今明兩年的支出。

洪偉立 摘譯自 Offshore Energy

原文如下：

Inpex reviewing investment plans amid oil price decline and coronavirus crisis

Japan’s Inpex Corporation is reviewing its investment plans and looking into other cost-reducing measures due to the current market situation and the impact of the coronavirus and the oil price decline on its business operations.

In a notice concerning the impact of the oil price decline and the coronavirus pandemic, Inpex said on Wednesday that the prices of oil and natural gas are determined in large part by international market trends, which are influenced by numerous factors including international and regional supply and demand fluctuations as well as the condition of the global economy and financial markets.

Currently, oil prices are rapidly declining due to the expectation of a reduction in energy demand following a global economic downturn induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the breakdown of the OPEC+ production cut agreement.

While it remains a challenge at this stage to forecast how long these conditions will last, Inpex said its policy is to minimize the impact of oil prices maintaining their current level for a certain amount of time by optimizing operations, reviewing investment plans group-wide, and pursuing further cost-reduction measures, in order to sustain stable business operations.

The company said it would disclose the impact to the forecasted consolidated operating results for the year ending December 31, 2020, announced on February 12, 2020, in a timely manner once the impact was determined.

If Inpex decides to reduce its spending for 2020, it would be joining many oil and gas operators around the world, some of which have taken drastic measures to cut their spending for this year as well as the next.