據8月31日阿格斯網站消息：由于生產商在第二季度末逐步恢復生產，美國乙烷油田產量在6月升至歷史新高。

美國能源信息署(EIA)公布的月度數據顯示，乙烷產量增至210萬桶/天，比5月的180萬桶/天增長14%，比6月增長16％。

3月和4月產量急劇下降，因為關閉的天然氣井減少了伴生氣產量。到5月底，價格上漲支撐從天然氣流中回收更多的乙烷。得克薩斯州貝爾維尤市，4月乙烯平均價格為12.97美元/加侖，5月上升至22.36美元/加侖，6月上升至21.88美元/加侖。

乙烷庫存也有所上升，6月攀升至5200萬桶，較上月增長9%，但較2019年6月報告的6000萬桶下降14%。6月乙烷出口量為30.8萬桶/天，比5月增長3％，比去年6月增長12%。

美國6月丁烷出口量為30.1萬桶/天，低于上月的35.2萬桶/天，而去年同期為29.6萬桶/天。6月，丁烷主要出口到印度尼西亞和韓國。

丁烷庫存6月為5540萬桶，比產量大幅下降的5月增長20%，但低于去年6月的5820萬桶。

美國6月生產1340萬桶丁烷，低于5月的1380萬桶，但高于去年6月的1270萬桶。

馮娟 摘譯自 阿格斯

原文如下:

US ethane production rises to record: EIA

US ethane field production rose to a record high in June as producers moved to recover more product late in the second quarter.

Ethane output rose to 2.1mn b/d, a 14pc increase from the prior record 1.8mn b/d produced in May and a 16pc increase from the previous June, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported today in its monthly data.

Production fell sharply in March and April as shut-in natural gas wells reduced output of associated gas. By late May, rising prices supported recovery of more ethane from the gas stream. Mont Belvieu, Texas, EPC ethane averaged 12.97￠/USG in April, before rising to 22.36￠/USG in May and 21.88￠/USG in June.

Ethane inventories also rose, climbing to 52mn bl in June, up 9pc from the previous month, but a 14pc drop from the 60mn bl reported in June 2019. June ethane exports of 308,000 b/d were up by 3pc from May and up by 12pc from June last year.

US butane exports stood at 301,000 b/d in June, down from 352,000 b/d last month and up slightly from the 296,000 b/d during the same month last year. June butane exports mainly went to destinations in Indonesia and South Korea.

Butane stocks stood at 55.4mn bl in June, up by 20pc from May when production fell sharply, but down from 58.2mn bl of inventories in June last year.

The US produced 13.4mn bl of butane in June, down from 13.8mn bl in May, but up from 12.7mn bl last June.