美国减产致布伦特原油价格攀升石英石

据Azernews网站8月26日消息 周三布伦特原油价格上涨，原因是美国生产商在飓风劳拉之前关闭了墨西哥湾的大部分海上石油产量，同时对中美贸易谈判的乐观情绪也提振了布伦特原油价格。

但在欧洲和亚洲报告有患者再次感染疫情，引发对未来免疫的担忧后，市场对冠状病毒大流行的担忧遏制了油价需求。

截至格林尼治标准时间06：42分，布伦特原油期货LCOc1上涨10美分，至每桶45.96美元，涨幅0.2%；美国西德克萨斯中质原油CLc1下跌5美分，至每桶43.30美元，跌幅0.1%。两项基准指数周二均触及五个月高点。

OANDA驻纽约的高级市场分析师Edward Moya表示：“飓风影响短期内看涨，但如果德州和路易斯安那州海岸的破坏使需求长期瘫痪，这可能是短暂的。”

周二，美国能源行业正在为一场大的飓风袭击做准备。石油生产商撤离了310个海上设施，关闭了156万桶/天的原油产量，占墨西哥湾海上产量的84%，接近15年前卡特里娜飓风造成的90%的停产。

AxiCorp首席全球市场策略师斯蒂芬·因内斯表示：“市场目前正在考虑可能出现滚珠丝杆的短期灾难性汽油短缺。”

美国石油协会、数据显示，上周美国原油库存下降幅度超过预期，进一步支撑了油价。美国能源部统计部门美国能源信息署将于周三晚些时候公布自己的官方库存数据。

不过，经济下行压力来自对需求的担忧，此前数据显示，由于担心冠状病毒导致的失业，美国消费者信心已跌至6年多来的最低水平。

吴恒磊 编译自 Azernews

原文如下：

Brent prices climb on U.S. output cuts, China trade deal hopes

Brent浓度计 crude oil prices rose on Wednesday, lifted by U.S. producers shutting most of their offshore output in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Laura and optimism over China-U.S. trade talks, Trend reports with reference to Reuters.

But gains were capped amid renewed conc齿轮油泵ern over the coronavirus pandemic, which has squeezed fuel demand, after reports from Europe and Asia of patients being re-infected with COVID-19, raising concerns about future immunity.

Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 adde笔筒d 10 cents, or 0.2%, to $45.96 a barrel by 0642 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 fell 5 cents, or 0.1%, to $43.30 a barrel. Both benchmarks settled at a five-month high on Tuesday.

“The hurricane impact is short-term bullish, but that could be short-lived if the damage to the Texas and Louisiana coasts cripples demand for an extended time,” said Edward Moya, senior market analyst at OANDA in New York.

The U.S. energy industry on Tuesday was preparing for a major hurricane strike. Producers evacuated 310 offshore facilities and shut 1.56 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude output, 84% of Gulf of Mexico’s offshore production - near the 90% outage that Hurricane Katrina brought 15 years ago.

“Markets are currently pricing in a possible near-term catastrophic gasoline shortage,” said Stephen Innes, chief global markets strategist at AxiCorp.

Further price support came from data from the American Petroleum Institute showing U.S. crude oil stockpiles fell more than expected last week. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Department of Energy, will release its own official inventory data later on Wednesday.

Still, downward pressure came from concern about demand after data showing U.S. consumer confidence has tumbled to its lowest in more than six years due to concern about coronavirus-induced job losses.