British petroleum and other European and American energy giants have amazing profits in the second quarter

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 4th. The latest financial report released by British Petroleum on the 2nd shows that its profit in the second quarter of this year reached 9.3 billion US dollars, the highest quarterly profit in 14 years, nearly three times the same period last year.

The single -quarter net profit of Petroleum is a record high, and the situation in Ukraine stirs the global energy market. A few days ago, the US ExMobil announced the net profit of US $ 17.9 billion in the second quarter, nearly four times the data in the second quarter of last year.

This is a photo of British Petroleum Corporation, which was taken in Windsor, Britain on April 21, 2020. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Tim Irish)

In addition, Chevron, Shell Group, and Daedal Energy Company in the second quarter of financial reports showed amazing profits.

The Washington Post reported on the 2nd that the total profit of the above five energy companies in the second quarter exceeded $ 55 billion.

Looking forward to the performance prospects in the third quarter, Ying Petroleum predicted on the 2nd that in view of the continuous continuity of Russian oil supply, insufficient global spare production capacity and the extension of the inventory significantly below 5 years, oil prices will remain high.

On July 13, pedestrians walked through a gas station in Milbre, California, USA. According to data released by the US Department of Labor on the 13th, the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.3%month -on -month in June this year, a year -on -year increase of 9.1%, which is much higher than market expectations. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Li Jianguo)

Reuters reports that although the US government has repeatedly called for crude oil, Saudi Arabia, headed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia's non -OPEC oil -producing country coordination mechanism, "OPEC+" considers the maintenance of crude oil in September. However, a number of sources said last week that the "OPEC+" ministerial conference on the 3rd may discuss the possibility of slightly increasing production.

British Petroleum also warned that as Russia reduced the supply of natural gas to Europe, in order to deal with Western sanctions against Russia, the price of natural gas will continue to fluctuate at a high level.

Ying Petroleum said that the prospect of the natural gas market is "highly dependent on Russian pipeline transportation."

This is the entrance point connecting the "friendship" oil pipelines connected to Hungary and Russia on May 24th in Hungarian Bao Taotao Danube Refinery on May 24. Xinhua News Agency (Photo Photo by Fleje Ottlo)

Russia's Natural Gas Industry Co., Ltd. recently reduced the gas transmission volume of the "Beixi-1" pipeline to Europe to one-fifth of the full load state, because the pipeline components need to be repaired. As a measure against Russia, the European Union plans to reduce Russia's natural gas imports by about 100 billion cubic meters by the end of this year, a decrease of nearly two -thirds.

Agence France -Presse reported that the British government proposed "huge profits tax" to British Petroleum and its peers in May, in order to raise funds for the British government to alleviate inflation. British consumers have recently faced the "crisis of living costs" due to the rise in energy prices such as electricity and gas expenses, which has put pressure on the government.

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the British Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 9.4%year -on -year, a new high of 40 years. (Bu Xiaoming)

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