據10月9日ArabNews報道，受到新冠肺炎疫情的影響，能源公司之間一度激烈的在德克薩斯州海岸外建造深水石油出口終端的競賽陷入停滯。

在美國墨西哥灣沿岸最初的12項離岸石油出口提案中，只有3項仍待聯邦海事監管機構審批。分析師表示，隨著疫情大幅削減全球燃料需求，以及美國頁巖油氣田熱情的減少，這些項目進展正變得緩慢。

咨詢公司Lipow oil Associates總裁Andrew Lipow表示:"盡管這些項目可能還在規劃階段，但它們或多或少處于不確定狀態，因為在當前的原油價格環境下，已經有了足夠的出口能力。"

今年美國石油產量下降了18%，原油價格下跌了35%，減少了對新出口終端的需求。根據美國的數據，從去年的46%到今年7月，美國原油日出口增長放緩到8%。

王佳晶 摘譯自 ArabNews

原文如下：

US oil-export projects stall

The pandemic has stalled a once-furious race among energy companies to build deepwater oil export terminals off the Texas coast, amid permitting delays and rising environmental opposition.

Only three out of an initial dozen offshore US Gulf Coast oil export proposals remain before federal maritime regulators. They are being slow-walked as the coronavirus slashed global fuel demand and the gusher from US shale fields ebbed, analysts said.

“While these projects may be on the drawing board, they are more or less in a state of limbo given that in the current crude oil price environment, there’s more than ample export capacity already available,” said Andrew Lipow, president of consultancy Lipow Oil Associates.

US oil production has declined 18 percent and crude prices have tumbled 35 percent this year, lessening demand for new export ports. Daily US crude exports slowed to 8 percent gain through July, down from 46 percent last year, according to US data.