中国石化新闻网讯 据离岸工程网站8月25日消息 在最近几天强劲反弹后油价稍作喘息，因为墨西哥将在一次重大停电后恢复原油生产，油价周三下跌，但仍保持在每桶70美元以上。
截至格林威治时间09:04，布伦特原油下跌33美分（0.46%），至每桶70.72美元；美国西德克萨斯中质原油（WTI）下跌40美分（0.59%），至67.14美元。
两个基准价格在前两天都上涨了约8%。在冠状病毒疾病复苏后，油价反弹从七天的下跌中抹去了大部分的暴跌。
Vandana Hari在给客户的一份报告中表示：“原油市场连续第二天的价格上涨也刺激了一些获利回吐，而美国石油协会上周公布的数据显示，美国石油库存下降幅度低于预期，加剧了下行压力。”
在石油平台发生火灾后，墨西哥的石油供应量下降40多万桶/天后，价格在前几个交易日上涨。这家国有石油公司表示，预计将在8月30日前恢复生产。
OANDA高级市场分析师爱德华·莫亚对路透社表示：“布伦特原油应在今日疲弱的情况下保持相当的支撑，因为石油市场仍然严重亏损，短期内不会改变。”
美国石油协会的数据显示，截至8月20日的一周内，原油库存下降160万桶，汽油库存下降100万桶。
据路透社调查，分析师预计原油库存将减少270万桶，汽油库存将减少160万桶。
美国能源信息管理局的官方数据将于周三格林威治时间14:30发布。
上周库存的下降是由于担心传染性很强的冠状病毒德尔塔在亚洲的传播会减缓该地区的经济复苏。
吴恒磊 编译自 离岸工程
原文如下：
Oil Prices Drop But Stay Above $70 a Barrel
Oil prices dropped on Wednesday but stayed above $70 a barrel, taking a breather after recent days' strong rally as Mexico was set to resume crude production following a major outage.
Brent crude fell 33 cents, or 0.46%, to $70.72 a barrel by 0904 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 40 cents, or 0.59%, to $67.14.
Both benchmark contracts rose by about 8% over the previous two days. The rally erased most of the slump from a seven-day losing streak on the back of a resurgence in COVID-19 cases.
"A second consecutive day of price rally in the crude market had also spurred some profit-taking, while American Petroleum Institute data showing a less-than-expected decline in U.S. oil inventories last week added to the downward pressure," Vandana Hari said in a note to clients.
Prices rallied in previous sessions after Mexican supply fell by more than 400,000 barrels per day after a fire on an oil platform. The state oil firm said it expected to resume production by Aug. 30.
"Brent crude should remain fairly supported here despite today's weakness as the oil market is still heavily in deficit and that won't change anytime soon," Edward Moya, senior market analyst at OANDA, told Reuters.
American Petroleum Institute data showed crude inventories fell 1.6 million barrels for the week ended Aug. 20, while gasoline stockpiles fell 1 million barrels, according to sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Analysts were expecting crude stockpiles to fall by 2.7 million barrel and gasoline stocks to drop by 1.6 million barrels, according to a Reuters poll.
Official data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration is due to be released on Wednesday at 1430 GMT.
Last week's losses were driven by fears that the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus in Asia would slow the region's economic recovery.
