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伍德赛德计划裁减至少500个岗位。西澳将有多少岗位受影响?

伍德赛德希望以更少的员工实现更高产量。其至少裁减500个岗位的计划,让西澳面临一个最大的未解问题:裁员将落到哪些岗位?

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伍德赛德全球裁员计划中,有多少将落到西澳大利亚?这是这家能源公司于2026年11月5日宣布计划在全球至少裁减500个职位后,眼下最直接的问题。其员工高度集中在澳大利亚,尤其是西澳。公司尚未公开按国家、业务或岗位划分裁员名额。⁠1

更大的方向则较为明确:伍德赛德希望以规模更小的员工队伍支撑更大的生产业务,并从资产中创造更多价值。这是计划中的裁员,并不意味着已有500人失业。“至少”也表示500是最低人数,而非最终总数。⁠8

至少500人计划中的全球裁员人数 18
约80%驻澳大利亚的员工比例 1
4亿美元自2028年起的年度结构性节省目标 13

这项公告与伍德赛德在悉尼举行的资本市场日活动,以及公司日期为11月5日的澳大利亚证券交易所公告同时发布。公司称,裁员规模约为每十个岗位中的一个。路透社在《海上工程师》刊载的报道中引用了截至2025年12月的4693名员工数据;这是一个历史时点的数据,并非裁员公告发布当天经核实的员工人数。⁠3⁠12⁠8

伍德赛德约80%的员工驻澳大利亚,其中绝大多数在西澳。其澳大利亚液化天然气业务主要集中在该州沿海地区。这种人员集中状况意味着公告对西澳员工影响重大,但无法据此确定裁员将落在哪里。按澳大利亚员工占比推算全球裁员人数,将得出缺乏依据的当地失业人数估计。⁠1

2028年也不是已经披露的裁员截止日期,而是计划开始实现经常性年度节省的时间。伍德赛德尚未提供受影响岗位、澳大利亚裁员名额或明确的实施时间表——这些细节是员工判断公司层面的警告是否会影响自身岗位所必需的。⁠1⁠13

员工更少,业务更大

这些节省金额需要谨慎解读。新华社11月5日对伍德赛德澳大利亚证券交易所声明的报道称,自2028年起,每年将实现4亿美元的结构性成本削减。澳大利亚广播公司同日的报道给出的数字是每年5.5亿美元,但未明确说明币种。两者之间的关系尚未确定:不能稳妥地将第二个数字标注为澳元换算金额,也不能将其视为公司目标有所不同的证据。⁠13⁠1

该计划还包括资产组合和供应链调整,因此全部节省目标并不等同于工资成本节省。在首席执行官利兹·韦斯科特领导下,伍德赛德已出售其特立尼达和多巴哥天然气田及大日出项目的股权,并正寻求出售一个清洁氨项目。⁠13⁠8

“我们现在的首要任务是从资产组合中创造更多价值,”韦斯科特在资本市场日之前的一份声明中说。伍德赛德的产量雄心是到2032年将产量提高32%,达到2.8亿桶油当量——这一指标合并计算石油和天然气。这是一个目标,并非已经实现的产量。⁠8

斯卡伯勒项目是这一增长叙事的核心。韦斯科特表示,该项目位于皮尔巴拉海岸以外约375公里处,已完成99%,距离运出首批液化天然气(LNG)货物仅数周。伍德赛德还将位于金伯利海岸外的布劳斯项目列为增长选项。获准将西北大陆架项目的运营期限延长至2070年,有助于开辟开发布劳斯项目的路径,但并未消除该项目尚存的障碍。⁠1

澳大利亚以外的扩张项目包括墨西哥湾的特里昂油田,以及年产能1650万吨、计划于2029年投产的路易斯安那州液化天然气设施。伍德赛德已签署一份为期20年的协议,从2030年起每年向卡塔尔能源公司供应最多300万吨路易斯安那州产液化天然气,同时仍在寻求出售该项目的部分股权。⁠8

这些雄心对解读裁员计划十分重要。这并不是伍德赛德打算减少能源产量的公告,而是一项旨在提高投资者回报、同时增加产量的重组计划。但增长计划本身并不能说明为什么拟裁掉每一个岗位,也不能证明剩余员工将如何完成相关工作。

投资者与员工面临不同的问题

股东也被要求接受一套有所改变的回报安排。自2013年以来,伍德赛德支付的股息最高可达基础净利润的80%。新政策改为以调整后经营现金流的20%至40%为基准:基础比例为20%,另有20%可用于额外派息或股票回购。⁠8

不能把这些百分比简单理解为每位投资者的股息都将减半。利润和现金流是不同的衡量指标,而股票回购是通过购买公司股票返还资金,并非向所有持股者支付股息。尽管如此,以收入为导向的投资者仍可能拿到更少的回报。投资公司Van Eck高管杰米·汉纳告诉路透社,将派息与现金流挂钩“从经济角度看可能更好”,但他也警告称,较低的表面派息比例可能让这些投资者处于不利地位。⁠8

伍德赛德的目标是到下一个十年中期,让各项目的投资回报率达到12%至15%。此前,该公司对海上石油项目、天然气项目和新能源项目设定的门槛分别高于15%、12%和10%。这些是管理层的财务目标,并非有保证的结果,也不能证明任何特定裁员无法避免。⁠8

在西澳,这一公告是在资源行业其他就业岗位流失之后发布的。汉考克铁矿石公司6月确认罗伊山项目将裁员,但未披露人数。必和必拓10月宣布,计划在其皮尔巴拉铁矿石业务中裁减最多300个岗位。伍德赛德又提出一项规模可观的裁员计划,但其在当地的影响仍然未知。⁠1

西澳财政厅长丽塔·萨菲奥蒂表示,她“非常失望”,但重申政府将继续“支持天然气”。她说:“我们是一个资源州,天然气是能源供应的重要组成部分。让我们继续支持天然气行业,将其作为整体经济愿景的一部分。”她的回应将对资源项目的支持与就业联系起来,但既未说明当地裁员名额,也未承诺保护受影响岗位。⁠1

西澳绿党发言人索菲·麦克尼尔称,这些裁员证明这家化石燃料公司“正在走下坡路”,并反对作为布劳斯项目一部分的斯科特礁钻探活动。资源分析师彼得·斯特拉坎则驳斥了衰退论,指出与伊朗战争有关的高油价,并称韦斯科特的做法高度聚焦股东价值。这些是对该战略的不同解读,并未回答谁会失去工作。⁠1

对员工而言,这一区别正是公告中尚未解决的核心问题。伍德赛德列出了全球裁员的最低人数,以及预期实现的财务目标。员工仍需要知道具体路径:哪些岗位、哪些地点、何时生效,以及受影响员工会有哪些选择。

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  1. Woodside plans to cut at least 500 jobs worldwide.
  2. That's roughly one position in ten at a company whose workforce is concentrated in Australia. The immediate question is how much of that reduction will fall on Western Australian workers.
  3. Woodside announced the reductions on November fifth at its Capital Markets Day in Sydney. At least 500 positions are slated to go. The company had 4,693 employees in December 2025, a historical snapshot before this roughly ten per cent reduction was announced.
  4. Five hundred is the minimum Woodside has set out, leaving room for a larger eventual reduction. The announcement puts employees on notice of a restructuring, with the company seeking a smaller workforce while pursuing growth across its energy business.
  5. About 80 per cent of Woodside's workforce is based in Australia, and the vast majority of those employees work in Western Australia. Its Australian operations producing liquefied natural gas, or LNG, are principally centred off the state's coast.
  6. The cuts follow other employment losses in the state's resources sector. Hancock Iron Ore confirmed job cuts at Roy Hill in June, without disclosing the total. In October, BHP announced plans to cut up to 300 jobs across its Pilbara iron ore operations. Woodside's announcement adds another large proposed reduction to that picture.
  7. Woodside is targeting annual structural savings of 400 million US dollars from 2028. A separate published figure puts savings at 550 million dollars, but its currency isn't clear. The relationship between those amounts is also unclear, so they can't safely be treated as competing targets.
  8. The savings program includes changes to Woodside's portfolio and supply chain alongside staff reductions. Westcott has already overseen sales of the company's Trinidad and Tobago gas fields and its stake in Greater Sunrise. Woodside is also looking to sell a clean ammonia project. Together, those changes form part of a wider effort to improve returns.
  9. Woodside wants to lift production by 32 per cent to 280 million barrels of oil equivalent by 2032. That measure combines oil and gas. Chief executive Liz Westcott said, “Our priority now is to extract more value from our portfolio.”
  10. Westcott said Scarborough was 99 per cent complete and weeks from its first LNG cargo. The project sits about 375 kilometres off the Pilbara coast. Woodside also identifies Browse, off the Kimberley coast, as a growth option. Approval to extend North West Shelf operations until 2070 helps open a path to developing that resource.
  11. Woodside's old dividend ceiling was 80 per cent of underlying net profit. Its replacement uses 20 to 40 per cent of adjusted operating cash flow. That includes a 20 per cent base, with another 20 available for extra dividends or buybacks.
  12. Share buybacks return money to investors by purchasing company shares. Investors who rely on dividend income could receive less under the new approach. But the two policies measure different things. A lower percentage of cash flow doesn't translate directly into the same percentage reduction in a dividend, because profit and cash flow can differ.
  13. Woodside is targeting investment returns of 12 to 15 per cent across projects by the middle of the next decade. Previously, its thresholds exceeded 15 per cent for offshore oil, 12 per cent for gas and ten per cent for new energy.
  14. Woodside's expansion plan includes Trion oil in the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana LNG, due online by 2029. Louisiana's planned capacity is 16.5 million tonnes a year. Last week, Woodside signed a 20-year agreement to supply QatarEnergy with up to three million tonnes annually from 2030. Woodside also wants to sell down its stake in Louisiana LNG.
  15. WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti said she was “very disappointed” but would keep backing gas. WA Greens spokesperson Sophie McNeill called Woodside a company “in decline”. Resources analyst Peter Strachan rejected that description, pointing to high oil prices linked to the Iran war.
  16. McNeill said Woodside shouldn't be allowed to drill at Scott Reef as part of Browse. Saffioti said gas was integral to the state's energy supply and her government would continue “to bat for gas”. She linked support for resources projects with the desire for strong employment.
  17. Woodside hasn't disclosed how many Australian positions will go, which roles will be affected or when the reductions will take effect. The 2028 date is when recurring savings are expected to begin. Workers still need a local allocation and an implementation plan to know whose jobs are at risk and what options they'll have.

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