俄罗斯因油价暴跌备开始承压

中国石化新闻网讯 据3月18日今日油价报道，随着WTI原油价格创下有记录以来的第三个最差交易日，俄罗斯开始感受到压力，其石油和天然气收入大幅下滑，同时不得不在欧洲和亚洲等主要市场争夺市场份额。

周三，克里姆林宫新闻秘书德米特里·佩斯科夫(Dmitry Peskov)表示，俄罗斯当然希望看到油价上涨，但俄罗斯尚未与欧佩克接触，商讨相关措施。俄罗斯正在密切关注全球石油市场的形势，试图对近期和中期的未来市场做出预测。

沙特最近宣称在未来几个月向市场供应1230万桶/天的原油，引发周三下午油价进一步暴跌，道琼斯指数下跌逾2万点，WTI暴跌25%。

欧佩克的第二大产油国伊拉克敦促欧佩克团结起来，找到解决办法，制止石油市场的混乱。有消息称，伊拉克石油部长Thamer al-Ghadhban已经要求欧佩克主席Mohammed Barkindo召开欧佩克+特别会议，以‘讨论所有可能的方法’来扭转油价下滑。

目前看来，沙特和阿联酋不太可能改变当前战略。

邹勤 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

Russia Needs Higher Oil Prices, But Won't Surrender

With WTI crude seeing its third-worst trading day on record, Russia is beginning to feel the squeeze as it sees its oil and gas income tumble while it has to fight for its market share in key markets such as Europe and Asia.

On Wednesday, Russian President Putin’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov stated that Russia would sure like to see oil prices improve, but that his country has not yet reached out to OPEC to discuss measures.

Bloomberg quoted Peskov as saying that “Of course it’s a low price, we would like to see it higher,” adding “We’re very closely monitoring the situation on global oil markets, analyzing the situation, trying to make forecasts for the near- and mid-term future,”

Saudi Arabia’s latest claim of supplying markets with 12.3 million bpd during the next couple of months has triggered a further collapse in oil prices on Wednesday afternoon, with WTI collapsing 25% as the Dow Jones Index shed more than 20,000 points, effectively erasing all gains since U.S. President Trump got sworn in.

Next to Russia, OPEC’s no.2 producer Iraq urged the cartel to come together and find a solution to stop the bloodbath in oil markets. According to Oilprice.com’s Irina Slav, ‘’Iraqi Oil Minister, Thamer al-Ghadhban, has asked OPEC’s head, Mohammed Barkindo to call an extraordinary meeting of OPEC+ to ‘discuss all possible ways’ to reverse the oil price slide’’.

At this moment, it seems unlikely that Saudi Arabia and the UAE will change course.