據日本時報5月12日報道，對于那些跨越德克薩斯州和新墨西哥州邊界開采世界上產量最高的石油和天然氣儲量的公司來說，油價暴跌導致了巨大的損失。

卡皮坦能源石油天然氣公司(Capitan Energy oil and natural gas company)的共同所有人克雷格?布萊爾發現，二疊紀盆地的石油產量已從每天1.5萬桶暴跌至僅6000桶。

4月20日，由于市場嚴重飽和，需求蒸發，每桶石油價格跌至負數。僅這一天，估計就損失了50萬美元。由于缺乏庫存容量來儲存開采的石油，生產商不得不支付每桶37美元的費用來將石油運走。

當油價下跌50%時，該公司迅速做出了反應以維持收支平衡——所有開支削減50%。

卡皮坦能源公司擁有28000公頃的開采權。布萊爾表示:“我們已經停止了所有沒有開始的項目，直到油價回升到每桶大約50美元，我們才會重啟。”

鄒勤 摘譯自 日本時報

原文如下：

U.S. oil producers struggle to stay afloat in sea of excess

For the companies that drill the highest-producing deposits of oil and natural gas in the world, straddling the border between Texas and New Mexico, the crash in oil prices has led to spectacular losses.

Craig Blair, co-owner of the Capitan Energy oil and natural gas company, has seen his production in the Permian Basin collapse from 15,000 barrels of oil a day to just 6,000.

On April 20, the price of a barrel of oil fell below zero because the market was so heavily saturated and demand had evaporated.

That day alone, Blair estimates he lost half a million dollars. Lacking long-term facilities to store the oil he had pumped, he had to pay $37 a barrel just to have it taken away.

Blair co-owns the company with his cousin, and it does not have any shareholders. When the price of oil dropped by 50 percent, he responded quickly.

“The only way you can make ends meet is, everything has to be cut by 50 percent.

Capitan Energy has mineral rights to 28,000 hectares.

“We’ve stopped any project that we weren’t in the middle of doing, if we could stop it we’ve stopped it, and we won’t start it back up again until the price of oil gets (to) probably around $50 a barrel,” he said