據7月30日Offshore Energy消息：總部位于海牙的液化天然氣巨頭殼牌在今年二季度報告了巨大的季度虧損，其液化天然氣銷售額下降7%。

殼牌公司周四宣布，該公司第二季度虧損181億美元。虧損包括稅后168億美元和稅前223億美元的減值支出。

這家能源巨頭6月底表示，由于疫情繼續破壞全球需求，該公司還下調了對大宗商品價格的預期。

殼牌在4-6月期間出售了1,665萬噸液化天然氣，去年同期為1,795萬噸。而液化量也較上年同期下降3%，至836萬噸。

1-6月液化天然氣銷量增長1%，至3,565萬噸，而液化量下降1%，至1,723萬噸。

殼牌表示，預計第三季液化量將在760-820萬噸之間，但預估估計對價格的影響更大。

該公司表示:“由于與石油掛鉤的液化天然氣遠期合約價格滯后，低油價的影響或將在第三季度變得更加顯著。”

殼牌的綜合天然氣業務因減值和液化天然氣、石油和天然氣價格下跌而虧損79.5億美元。

殼牌稱，這包括81.5億美元的稅后減損支出，主要涉及昆士蘭Curtis液化天然氣和Prelude FLNG在澳大利亞的業務。

馮娟 摘譯自 Offshore Energy

原文如下：

Shell’s second-quarter LNG sales drop

The Hague-based LNG giant Shell logged a 7 percent decline in its liquefied natural gas sales during the second quarter of this year as it reported a huge quarterly loss.

Shell announced on Thursday a loss of $18.1 billion for the second quarter due to the effects related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The loss included an impairment charge of $16.8 billion post-tax or $22.3 billion pre-tax.

The energy giant said in late June it would take a substantial impairment hit also revising its outlook for commodity prices as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to destroy demand all over the globe.

Shell sold 16.65 million tonnes of LNG in the April-June period, compared to 17.95 million tonnes in the same period last year.

Liquefaction volumes also decreased 3 percent year-on-year to 8.36 million tonnes “mainly as a result of cargo timing”, Shell said.

In the January-June period, LNG sales increased 1 percent to 35.65 million tonnes while liquefaction volumes dropped 1 percent to 17.23 million tonnes.

Shell said it expects liquefaction volumes to be in the 7.6-8.2 million tonnes range in the third quarter but also sees a bigger impact on prices.

“Due to price lag in oil-linked LNG term contracts, the impact of low oil prices is expected to become more significant in the third quarter,” it said.

Shell’s Integrated Gas segment recorded a loss of $7.95 billion hit by impairments and lower realised LNG, oil and gas prices.

This included a post-tax impairment charge of $8.15 billion mainly related to the Queensland Curtis LNG and Prelude FLNG operations in Australia, Shell said.