据油价网12月6日报道，全球最大的油田服务提供商之一周一警告称，石油行业投资不足正导致世界石油短缺。

据彭博社报道，这家美国油田服务提供商表示，在油价从2014年100美元的鼎盛时期下滑后，连续七年投资不足，全球即将面临石油短缺。

哈利伯顿首席执行官杰夫·米勒（Jeff Miller）警告称，很长一段时间以来，我们将第一次看到买家在寻找一桶石油，而不是一桶石油在寻找买家。

米勒补充道，这家总部位于休斯敦的服务提供商已经看到，与历史标准相比，原油勘探者的支出减少了大约一半，而石油开采区的雇工也受到了成本上升的影响。与此同时，石油生产商借此机会将油田利润返还给股东，而不是再投资于钻探。

据米勒表示，正是后一个问题将不可避免地导致未来石油市场紧张。

但造成石油短缺的不仅仅是投资。

就在一周前，据说石油公司还面临着劳动力短缺，因为可再生能源行业看起来相当诱人。根据油气求职网站（Oilandgasjobsearch.com）开展的一项调查，超过一半的石油工人希望转向可再生能源。大约43%的石油和天然气工人希望在未来五年内全部离开该行业。

上周，哈里伯顿被提名道琼斯北美可持续发展指数成员——根据ESG标准，该指数包括每个行业前10%的最具可持续性的公司。根据这一标准，在70多个国家/地区开展业务的哈里伯顿在同行中排名第90位。

郝芬 译自 油价网

原文如下：

Halliburton: Global Oil Scarcity Is On The Horizon

The lack of investments into the oil industry is steering the world toward scarcity, one of the world’s largest oilfield service providers warned on Monday.

A global oil scarcity is on the horizon, the U.S. oilfield service provider said, after seven years of underinvestment after oil prices slide from their $100 heyday in 2014, Bloomberg reported.

“For the first time in a long time, we’ll see a buyer looking for a barrel of oil as opposed to a barrel of oil looking for a buyer,” Haliburton’s CEO Jeff Miller cautioned.

Miller added that the Houston-based service provider has seen crude explorers cut their spending by roughly half compared with historical norms, and the hired hands from the oil patch have been impacted by rising costs. Meanwhile, oil producers have taken this opportunity to return oilfield profits to their shareholders instead of reinvesting into drilling.

It is this latter issue that will inevitably cause oil a tight market in the future, according to Miller.

But it’s more than just investment that could create an oil scarcity.

Only a week ago, oil firms were said to be facing a workforce crunch as the renewables industry is looking rather fetching. According to a survey conducted by Oilandgasjobsearch.com, more than half of all oil workers are looking to make a move to renewables. About 43% of all oil and gas workers have a desire to leave the industry altogether within the next five years.

Halliburton last week was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America—which includes the top 10% most sustainable companies in each industry based on ESG criteria. Using this criteria, Halliburton—present in over 70 countries--ranked in the 90th percentile among its peers.