Oil breakeven prices in Middle East and North Africa 2016

This statistic shows the estimated breakeven oil prices for 2016 in Middle Eastern and Northern African countries, in U.S. dollars per barrel, based on imports. In that year, the breakeven oil price based on imports in Libya was some 134.10 U.S. dollars.Breakeven oil pricesA breakeven oil price is the price at which oil must be sold in order to recover the costs associated with its production. With the recent downturn in the global oil industry, breakeven oil prices are an important measure of an oil extractor's ability to remain profitable. Breakeven oil prices vary greatly throughout the world due to the widely differing costs associated with extracting different types of oil, the unique circumstances associated with oil extraction in different oil-producing regions, and so on. In times of economic downturn, oil resources with higher breakeven costs are the first to be discontinued. Unconventional oil resources, such as oil sands and shale oil, are more expensive to produce than conventional oil, and therefore suffer when oil prices drop. Since the oil glut began in 2014, even conventional oil deposits that are more expensive to extract are decreasing production. This has lead to significant economic impacts in places where the economy is closely tied to oil, such as Venezuela, which has oil sands deposits in addition to conventional oil resources. While oil prices have increased slightly since a record low in January 2016, it is uncertain how long it will take for oil prices to recover more substantially, if at all.

本统计数据显示了2016年中东及北非国家基于进口的预估盈亏平衡油价，单位为每桶美元。当年，基于进口的盈亏平衡油价在利比亚约为134.10美元。所谓盈亏平衡油价，是指石油销售价格达到该水平时，能够收回其生产过程中所发生的成本。在全球石油行业近期下滑的背景下，盈亏平衡油价成为衡量石油开采者保持盈利能力的重要指标。由于不同类型石油开采成本的巨大差异、不同石油产区开采石油的独特环境等因素，全球各地的盈亏平衡油价差异显著。在经济衰退时期，成本较高的石油资源往往首先被淘汰。非常规石油资源，如油砂和页岩油，相较于传统石油生产成本更高，因此当油价下跌时，它们所受的影响更为严重。自2014年石油过剩开始以来，即使是生产成本较高的传统石油储备也在减少产量。这导致与石油经济紧密相连的地区，如拥有油砂及传统石油资源的委内瑞拉等地，产生了显著的经济影响。尽管自2016年1月创纪录的低点以来，油价略有回升，但油价能否以及何时能够实质性恢复，仍存在不确定性。