據油價網7月25日報道,美國將按計劃在今年秋天結束戰略石油儲備(SPR)的釋放。
白宮國際能源事務總裁專門協調員Amos Hochstein告訴雅虎財經,美國戰略石油儲備創紀錄的原油釋放將于今年秋天如期結束。
“我們不能成為石油供應商。這是一種儲備,所以我們必須保留它”,Hochstein并不認為SPR釋放的結束會導致油價飆升。
并補充道,預計這不會導致價格飆升,因為石油行業已經準備在SPR釋放結束后增產。
Hochstein稱,目前對石油市場的分析有點歇斯底里,他已經與石油公司進行了對話,得到他們的承諾,他們將增加產量,以取代目前從SPR中釋放出來的石油。
根據今年4月公布的計劃,戰略石油儲備將以每天100萬桶的速度釋放1.8億桶原油,以應對市場緊張之下油價的無情上漲。據報道,其中一些石油最終出口,包括出口到亞洲。
當該計劃宣布時,有人警告稱,它可能會產生事與愿違的效果,推高而不是壓低價格,因為在這一大規模釋放之后,SPR將需要補充。
目前,美國的油價和汽油價格都在下降,但這與SPR的釋放關系不大,而是因為人們擔心美聯儲將再次大幅加息,這可能反過來導致經濟增長放緩,供應環境依然緊張。
然而,Hochstein表示,這種情況可能會改變,他告訴雅虎財經,幾位石油行業的CEO已經向他保證,到今年年底,他們將把日產量提高80萬桶至100萬桶。
郝芬 譯自 油價網
原文如下:
U.S. SPR Releases Set To End This Fall
The U.S. will end SPR releases as scheduled this fall.
Special Coordinator Hochstein: "We can't be an oil supplier. It's a reserve and so we have to keep that,"
Hochstein doesn't expect end of SPR releases to result in oil price spikes.
The record-high release of crude oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve will end as scheduled this fall, the White House's Special Presidential Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein told Yahoo Finance.
"We can't be an oil supplier. It's a reserve and so we have to keep that," Hochstein said, adding that he did not expect this to lead to price spikes because the oil industry was already preparing to increase production once the SPR release ended.
"There's a little bit of hysteria at the moment in the analysis of oil markets," Hochstein said, adding that he had had conversations with oil companies and had their word they would increase production to replace the oil that is currently coming out of the SPR.
The plan, announced in April, saw a total of 180 million barrels of crude being released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to counter the inexorable increase in oil prices amid a tight market, at a rate of some 1 million bpd. Some of that oil reportedly ended up getting exported, including to Asia.
When the plan was announced, there were warnings that it could backfire, pushing prices higher instead of lower because the SPR would need to be replenished after this substantial draw.
Currently, oil prices—and gasoline prices in the U.S.—are down, but this has less to do with the SPR release than with worry that the Fed will hike rates again and more sharply, which could in turn lead to a slowdown in economic growth. The supply environment remains tight.
This might change, however, according to Hochstein, who told Yahoo Finance that several oil industry CEOs had assured him that they will be boosting production by a combined 800,000 bpd to 1 million bpd by the end of the year.
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