据海外媒体3月19日伦敦报道,在美国取消长达40年的石油出口禁令以来的3个月里,美国的原油正在流向市场的几乎每个角落并将重塑世界能源的格局。
美国去年12月31日开始的原油海外销售已加快了速度。包括埃克森美孚公司在内的石油公司纷纷加入了诸如维多集团和托克公司那样的独立交易商行列来出口美国原油。
总部设在伦敦的Energy Aspects咨询公司的首席石油分析师Amrita Sen在一份报告中说,来自美国“不断增加的出口量”如今“正在搅乱市场”。
随着美国原油库存达到前所未有水平,装满美国原油的油轮已经停靠或者正在驶向包括法国、德国、荷兰、以色列、中国和巴拿马在内的国家。石油交易商说,由于欧洲和地中海地区的供应也将增加,因此,美国的油出口有可能还有其他的目的地。
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原文如下:
US CRUDE OIL EXPORTS GO MAINSTREAM
World Energy Information
March 19, 2016
London: Three months since the US lifted a 40-year ban on oil exports, American crude is flowing to virtually every corner of the market and reshaping the world’s energy map.
Overseas sales, which started on December 31 with a small cargo aboard the Theo T tanker, have been picking up speed. Oil companies including Exxon Mobil Corp has joined independent traders such as Vitol Group BV and Trafigura Ltd Pet. in exporting American crude.
The “growing volumes of exports” from the US are now “spooking the markets,” Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at consultants Energy Aspects Ltd in London, said in a note.
With American stockpiles at unprecedented levels, oil tankers laden with US crude have docked in, or are heading to, countries including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, China and Panama. Oil traders said other destinations are likely, just as supplies in Europe and the Mediterranean region are also increasing.