美国多年来首次向沙特阿拉伯运送原油

    中国石化新闻网讯 据海事新闻8月6日消息称，美国普查局周三公布的数据显示，美国6月份向沙特阿拉伯发运了一批原油，这似乎是自2015年美国原油出口禁令结束以来的首次发运。

    美国普查数据显示，美国6月份向沙特阿拉伯发运了约55万桶原油，即每天1.83万桶。美国能源情报署没有记录显示美国向沙特阿拉伯运送原油。

    美国普查数据显示，2002年运往沙特阿拉伯的石油只有区区1000桶。

    6月份的货物规模，甚至低于被称为Aframax货轮的最小型油轮的运量。交易员说，这批货物可能是另一批运往其他国家的货物的一部分。在Refinitiv Eikon的船舶跟踪数据中，没有从美国向沙特阿拉伯运送原油的记录。

    沙特阿拉伯是美国最大的原油供应国之一。五月份，该国每天发送约120万桶原油，是三年来的最高水平，原因是沙特阿拉伯和俄罗斯之间爆发了一场短暂的油价战争，当时全球范围内的冠状病毒大流行正在恶化。

    这导致石油供应严重过剩，以沙特阿拉伯为首的石油输出国组织及其盟友同意减产970万桶/天。欧佩克7月份石油日产量增加逾100万桶，因沙特和其他海湾国家终止了在协议之外自愿增加的供应限制。

    曹海斌 摘译自 海事新闻

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    U.S. Sends First Crude Shipment to Saudi Arabia in Years

    The United States sent a shipment of crude to Saudi Arabia in June, data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed on Wednesday, in what appears to be the first such delivery since the U.S. ban on crude exports ended in 2015.

    The United States shipped about 550,000 barrels, or 18,300 barrels per day (bpd), of crude to Saudi Arabia in June, U.S. Census data shows. The U.S. Energy Information Administration has no recorded instances of a U.S. crude shipment to Saudi Arabia.

    U.S. Census data shows a miniscule 1,000-barrel shipment to Saudi Arabia in 2002.

    The size of June's cargo is less than what would be shipped even in the smallest class of crude tankers known as Aframax vessels. Traders said it is possible the cargo was part of another shipment headed to a different country. There are no records of a crude shipment to Saudi Arabia from the United States in Refinitiv Eikon vessel tracking data.

    Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest suppliers of crude to the United States. It sent about 1.2 million barrels per day of crude in May, the most in three years, the result of a short-lived oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia that erupted just as the coronavirus pandemic was worsening worldwide.

    That created a major supply glut, which the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, led by Saudi Arabia, and allies agreed to deal with by cutting output by 9.7 million bpd. OPEC oil output rose by more than 1 million bpd in July as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf members ended voluntary additional supply curbs on top of that deal.