据油价网2021年4月6日报道，全球大宗商品贸易巨头维多(Vitol)4月6日报告称，由于新冠肺炎疫情大流行导致其石油交易量大幅下降，其2020年的收入从一年前的2250亿美元大幅下降到了1400亿美元。
维多表示，去年其原油和石油产品的日交易量为710万桶，低于前年同期的每日800万桶。
维多首席执行官罗素?哈迪表示，“自Covid-19被宣布为大流行以来已刚刚过去12个月。”“新冠病毒在2020年塑造了我们的业务和生活。封锁初期的特殊市场条件和需求的突然下降导致了巨大的物流挑战和市场机遇。”
哈迪表示，“今年年初，全球石油库存量增加了10多亿桶，石油行业不得不应对前所未有的情况重组供应链，以处理无论是生产商还是消费者都无法控制的过剩原油和石油产品。尽管大量需求已经恢复，前景也很乐观，但复苏速度比许多人预期的要慢，近期的需求不确定性依然存在。”
哈迪还表示，尽管需求不确定性依然存在，但维多预计除航空业外，大多数行业的石油需求都会复苏。维多首席执行官表示，鉴于此，全球石油需求复苏需要更长时间。
据彭博新闻社援引消息来源称，维多去年盈利30亿美元，其中大部分盈利是在疫情最严重的时期——2020年第二季度。
从长期来看，维多预计能源需求将从液态碳氢化合物转向电力，尽管维多也指出，随着经济从煤炭转向液态碳氢化合物，全球对液化天然气和液化石油气等化石燃料的需求将会增长。
李峻 编译自 油价网
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.
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