據能源世界網2月25日里約熱內盧報道，巴西國有石油公司巴國油(Petrobras)周三宣布，該公司在2020年第四季度恢復盈利，在該公司股價暴跌20%兩天后，這一消息令人欣慰。

巴國油公布的去年10-12月凈利潤超過分析師預期，為599億雷亞爾(按當前匯率計算為110億美元)，扭轉了因新冠疫情導致的連續三個季度虧損。

這一業績足以讓這家巴西最大的公司以令人驚訝的71億雷亞爾的年利潤結束這一令人震驚的年度。這可能是該公司首席執行長布蘭科(Roberto Castello Branco)任內的最后一個季度。Castello Branco稱這一結果是“在極具挑戰性的環境下的杰出表現。

他在一份聲明中表示，在嚴重的全球衰退和石油行業受到重大沖擊的影響之際，我們承諾將構建一個J型復蘇。我們兌現了諾言。

分析師此前預測，第四季度利潤僅為49億雷亞爾。

這一結果比2019年第四季度增長了635%，當時巴國油增加了20億美元，結束了一年創紀錄的102億美元凈利潤。

郝芬 譯自 能源世界網

原文如下：

Brazil's Petrobras returns to profit in fourth quarter of 2020

Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, announced Wednesday it returned to profit in the fourth quarter of 2020, welcome news two days after its stock took a 20-percent nose-dive.

Petrobras beat analysts' expectations to post a net profit of 59.9 billion reais ($11 billion, at the current exchange rate) for the period from October to December, reversing three straight quarters of losses fueled by the coronavirus pandemic.

The result was strong enough for Brazil's biggest company to end the Covid-shaken year with a surprise annual profit of 7.1 billion reais.

It will likely be the company's final quarter under chief executive Roberto Castello Branco,Castello Branco called the results "an exceptional performance in a very challenging environment."

"In the middle of a severe global recession and the effects of a major shock for the oil industry, we promised to structure a J-shaped recovery," he said in a statement.

"We have delivered on our promises."

Analysts had been forecasting a profit of just 4.9 billion reais for the quarter.

The result was up 635 percent from the fourth quarter of 2019, when Petrobras added $2 billion to close out a year of record net profit ($10.2 billion).