據彭博新聞社5月7日休斯頓報道，美國著名石油生產商赫斯公司（Hess Corp.）7日表示，由于儲油速度太快，一些鉆井公司不得不減少了產量。為此，赫斯公司日前租用了3艘超大型油輪來儲存其在北達科他州生產的原油。

這家美國著名石油勘探公司說，該公司已經租用了3艘超大型油輪，每艘油輪能夠儲存5月、6月和7月產自北達科他州巴肯頁巖油田的約200萬桶原油。赫斯公司7日在第一季度財報中表示，該公司預計將在今年第4季度出售這些儲存起來的原油。

由于各國城市為應對疫情仍處于封閉狀態，石油生產商被迫關閉或削減產量。據挪威雷斯塔能源公司的數據，美國石油公司已宣布5月份每天關閉61.6萬桶原油產量。6月份，這一數字升至65.5萬桶/天。

赫斯公司的一名代表表示，將裝載赫斯公司5月份生產的原油的超大型油輪已經停靠在墨西哥灣。另外兩艘超大型油輪將在晚點時候抵達墨西哥灣。

李峻 編譯自 彭博社

原文如下：

Hess charters supertankers to store its North Dakota crude

Hess is chartering a trio of supertankers to hold its North Dakota crude production as rapidly filling storage forces some drillers to curtail output.

The U.S. oil explorer said it has enlisted three very-large crude carriers that will each store about 2 million barrels of oil produced in May, June and July from the Bakken shale field in North Dakota. Hess then expects to sell those volumes in the fourth quarter of this year, the company said Thursday in its first-quarter earnings statement.

As cities remain locked down in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, oil producers are being forced to shut in or curtail output. Companies have announced 616,000 barrels of oil per day worth of May shut-ins, according to Rystad Energy. In June, that rises to 655,000 barrels a day.

The VLCC that will hold Hess’s May production is already in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a representative for the company. The other two will arrive later.