據油價網2021年4月6日報道，全球大宗商品貿易巨頭維多(Vitol)4月6日報告稱，由于新冠肺炎疫情大流行導致其石油交易量大幅下降，其2020年的收入從一年前的2250億美元大幅下降到了1400億美元。

維多表示，去年其原油和石油產品的日交易量為710萬桶，低于前年同期的每日800萬桶。

維多首席執行官羅素?哈迪表示，“自Covid-19被宣布為大流行以來已剛剛過去12個月。”“新冠病毒在2020年塑造了我們的業務和生活。封鎖初期的特殊市場條件和需求的突然下降導致了巨大的物流挑戰和市場機遇。”

哈迪表示，“今年年初，全球石油庫存量增加了10多億桶，石油行業不得不應對前所未有的情況重組供應鏈，以處理無論是生產商還是消費者都無法控制的過剩原油和石油產品。盡管大量需求已經恢復，前景也很樂觀，但復蘇速度比許多人預期的要慢，近期的需求不確定性依然存在。”

哈迪還表示，盡管需求不確定性依然存在，但維多預計除航空業外，大多數行業的石油需求都會復蘇。維多首席執行官表示，鑒于此，全球石油需求復蘇需要更長時間。

據彭博新聞社援引消息來源稱，維多去年盈利30億美元，其中大部分盈利是在疫情最嚴重的時期——2020年第二季度。

從長期來看，維多預計能源需求將從液態碳氫化合物轉向電力，盡管維多也指出，隨著經濟從煤炭轉向液態碳氫化合物，全球對液化天然氣和液化石油氣等化石燃料的需求將會增長。

李峻 編譯自 油價網

原文如下：

Oil Trading Giant Vitol Sees Revenues Drop In 2020

Commodity trade major Vitol reported a drop in its 2020 revenue to $140 billion from $225 billion a year earlier as the pandemic plunged its traded oil volumes sharply lower.

The company said it had traded 7.1 million bpd of crude oil and products last year, down from 8 million barrels daily a year earlier.

“It is just over 12 months since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic,” chief executive Russell Hardy said. “The virus shaped our business and our lives in 2020. The extraordinary market conditions in the initial stages of lockdown and sudden drop in demand resulted in huge logistical challenges and market opportunities.”

“With stocks building by over one billion barrels in the early part of the year, the industry had to manage unprecedented circumstances, restructuring supply chains to handle the crude oil and products that neither producers nor consumers could contain. Whilst much demand has returned and the outlook is positive, the recovery has been slower than many anticipated and near-term uncertainties remain.”

Despite the lingering uncertainties, Hardy also said Vitol expected oil demand recovery across most sectors, with the notable exception of aviation. For that, Vitol’s chief executive said, demand recovery would take a while longer.

Vitol reportedly made a profit of $3 billion last year, according to sources cited by Bloomberg, much of it during the worst of the pandemic—the second quarter of 2020.

Over the longer term, Vitol said it expected a shift in energy demand from liquid hydrocarbons to electricity, although it noted that over the medium-term, demand for fuels such as liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas would grow as economies shift from coal to liquid hydrocarbons.