贝克休斯：期待已久的能源市场复苏已经开始

    中国石化新闻网讯 据今日油价网站3月1日消息 据路透社报道，贝克休斯首席执行官Lorenzo Simonelli周一表示，人们期待已久的能源市场复苏已经开始。

    去年，由于新冠疫情，人们普遍居家，抑制了旅行，导致需求减少，石油和天然气行业受到影响。自2020年3月以来，石油行业一直密切关注用于衡量总体供需平衡的石油需求和石油库存指标。

    在这段时间里，欧佩克+进行了积极的石油减产，旨在恢复这一平衡，而像美国这样的其他产油国减产并不是为了协同努力，而是因为库存过高，价格严重低迷。

    但当石油需求降至2020年的水平时，所有这些石油减产都不足以给市场带来快速平衡。

    但如今，欧佩克+从市场上截留了数十亿桶石油，新疫苗的乐观情绪已蔓延全球，供应形势终于开始趋紧。世界上最引人注目的石油市场美国的石油库存现在已经恢复到五年来的平均水平，这表明平衡迫在眉睫。

    Lorenzo Simonelli表示：“当观察供需平衡时，我们看到2021年将出现复苏，2022年市场将更加平衡。”

    王磊 摘译自 今日油价

    原文如下：

    Baker Hughes: Long-awaited Energy Market Recovery Has Begun

    The long-awaited, much-anticipated energy market recovery has begun, Baker Hughes CEO Lorenzo Simonelli said on Monday during CERAWeek, according to Reuters.

    The oil and gas industry suffered last year as the coronavirus pandemic knocked out demand as people hunkered down and stayed home, stifling travel. Since March 2020, the industry has been keeping a close eye on oil demand and oil inventories—metrics used to gauge the overall supply and demand balance.

    During this time, willful participants like OPEC+ have engaged in aggressive oil production curtailments designed to restore this balance, while other producers like the United States cut production not as a concerted effort, but because inventories were sky high and prices were severely depressed.

    But when oil demand dipped to the degree it did in 2020, all these oil production cuts were not enough to bring a quick balance to the market.

    But now that OPEC+ has withheld billions of barrels of oil from the market and a new vaccine optimism has spread throughout the globe, the supply situation is finally starting to tighten. Oil inventories in the United States—the most visible oil market in the world—has now returned to five-year average levels in a sign that balance is imminent.

    “As you look at supply and demand equation, we’re seeing that there will be a recovery in 2021 with an even more balanced market going into 2022,” Simonelli said.