科威特原油产量触及18个月高位

中国石化新闻网讯 中国石化新闻网讯 据今日原油价格网站8月1日消息，该国石油部长Bakheet al-Rashidi今天表示，科威特正在以每日280万桶的速度抽取原油，这是自标准普尔普拉茨所引述的。这比科威特6月份的日产量多出9万桶/天，这个数字凸显了卡特尔在迅速提高产量以控制价格方面所面临的困难：分析师估计，石油输出国组织的总量在7月仅增加了7万桶/日。

由于石油输出国组织为应对石油价格的不满而提高产量，科威特和沙特阿拉伯正在准备重新开始中立区的生产，这可能使全球供应量再增加50万桶。重启可能会在12月之前进行。

另外，部长说石油市场正在接近稳定。这是市场应该在今年早些时候做的事情，然后才发现这些价格水平对买家来说并不是最佳的。

现在，事情发生了变化。“目前很明显，基于目前的生产水平，我们正在接近一个非常稳定的阶段......无论是消费者还是生产者，”路透社援引Al-Rashidi说道。

科威特的总产能目前为全部油田的315万桶原油，但计划到2020年将这一产量提高到400万桶，到2040年将增加到475万桶。

李方征 编译自 今日原油价格

原文如下：

Kuwait Oil Production Hits 18-Month High

Kuwait is pumping crude at a daily rate of 2.8 million barrels, the most since December 2016, the country’s oil minister Bakheet al-Rashidi said today as quoted by S&P Platts. This is 90,000 bpd more than Kuwait’s June daily production and the figure highlights the difficulties the cartel faces in boosting production quickly enough to rein in prices: OPEC’s total, as estimated by analysts, only rose by 70,000 bpd in July.

As OPEC ramps up production in response to vocal disgruntlement with oil prices, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are preparing to restart production in the Neutral Zone, which could bring another half a million barrels daily to global supply. The restart will likely take place no sooner than December.

Separately, the minister said that the oil market is approaching stability. This is something the market was supposed to have done earlier this year, before it turned out those price levels were not exactly optimal for buyers.

Now, things have changed. “It is clear today based on the current level of production that we are approaching a very stable stage ... whether for the consumers or the producers,” Al-Rashidi said, as quoted by Reuters.

Kuwait’s total production capacity currently stands at 3.15 million barrels of crude from wholly owned fields, but plans are to boost this to 4 million bpd by 2020 and 4.75 million bpd by 2040.