全球石油需求暴跌逾10%

中国石化新闻网讯 据3月20日今日油价报道，全球最大的独立石油交易商维托尔（Vitol）称，当前形势下，全球石油需求将较通常的1亿桶/天下降逾10%。

维托尔研究主管Giovanni Serio表示：“尤其是美国，影响是巨大的。美国需求下降10%，意味着每日消费将减少200万桶。德国运输量下降40%，欧洲每日700万桶的需求中约有40%面临风险。因为全球的库存即将耗尽，这可能会导致油价暴跌至每桶十几美元甚至10美元。”

王佳晶 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

World’s Top Oil Trader: Global Demand To Plunge More Than 10%

Global oil demand is set to plunge by more than 10 percent from the typical 100-million-bpd consumption, as the raging coronavirus pandemic forces countries into lockdown, according to the world’s biggest independent oil trader, Vitol.

“ Particularly the U.S., then you can get as bearish as you like,” Giovanni Serio, head of research at Vitol, told Reuters on Friday.

According to the executive at the largest oil trader in the world, a 10-percent drop in U.S. demand would mean a 2 million bpd loss in consumption.

California, for example, is already under lockdown, after ordering on Thursday its 40 million residents to stay at home unless they have an essential reason to go out.

In Europe, lockdowns in Italy, Spain, and France are crushing oil demand, German traffic is down 40 percent, and if the UK takes more measures to curb domestic travel, around 40 percent of Europe’s 7-million-bpd demand is at risk, Vitol’s Serio told Reuters.

The world is running out of storage, which could send oil prices crashing into the teens and even to $10 a barrel.