據石油新聞2020年9月24日倫敦報道，英國商業、能源和工業戰略部9月24日在倫敦公布的統計數據顯示，盡管面臨新冠肺炎疫情，但由于取消維護使得原油產量保持“相對穩定”，7月份英國原油日產量同比僅下降了3%，為103萬桶，前7個月下降了4%，為109萬桶。

統計數據還顯示，英國7月份的原油和天然氣液體出口量連續第4個月超過進口量，但差距已經縮小，出口僅比進口多了4%，為285萬噸。

縱然近幾年來北海原油產量的復蘇提振了貿易平衡，然而，英國連續幾個月的原油和天然氣液體出口量超過進口量，這是極其不尋常的。

在包括產品在內的整體石油貿易方面，英國的進口依存度在7月份繼續增強，進口量超過出口量55.3萬噸，而在5月份英國成為了凈出口國。

英國商業、能源和工業戰略部強調了7月份英國煉油廠的需求復蘇，并指出，“本土”原油的使用量仍相對較高，這是受到了布倫特原油和西德克薩斯中質原油價格差異較低的推動。

英國煉油廠7月份對英國產原油和天然氣液體的消費量同比增長了10%，達到了82.8萬噸。

李峻 編譯自 石油新聞

原文如下：

UK oil output dips 4% in Jan-July, import dependence resuming

UK oil production fell 3% on the year in July to 1.03 million b/d, and was 4% lower over the first seven months, at 1.09 million b/d, as cancelled maintenance kept volumes "comparatively stable," despite COVID-19, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy said Sept. 24.

The statistical release also showed the UK exported more crude and natural gas liquids than it imported for a fourth month in a row in July, albeit the difference narrowed, with exports exceeding imports by just 4%, at 2.85 million mt.

Such a run of months in which the UK exports more crude and NGLs than it imports is highly unusual, even though recovering North Sea output had boosted the balance of trade in recent years.

In terms of overall oil trade, including products, the UK's import dependence continued to reassert itself in July, with imports outstripping exports by 553,000 mt, after a brief flip in which the country became a net exporter in the month of May.

BEIS highlighted a recovery in demand at UK refineries in July, noting also the use of "indigenous" crude remaining comparatively high, boosted, it said, by low differentials between Brent and WTI crude pricing.

Consumption of UK-produced crude and NGLs by the country's refineries was up 10% on the year, at 828,000 mt.