据美国彭博新闻社4月5日利雅得报道,由于产油国将在多哈开会讨论提议的产量冻结,世界最大的原油出口国沙特阿拉伯日前下调了5月份出口亚洲的阿拉伯轻质原油的官方售价。
沙特阿拉伯国家石油公司(沙特阿美、)周二在一份电子邮件中说,沙特阿美公司把5月份出口到亚洲的阿拉伯轻质原油的折扣每桶扩大了10美分至低于地区基准的85美分。
根据声明,沙特阿美公司还把5月份出售给亚洲的阿拉伯重质原油的折扣每桶扩大了35美元至低于地区基准的3.65美元。
中东地区产油国时下正在亚洲与来自拉丁美洲、北非和俄罗斯的货物竞争买家。波斯湾地区的产油国主要根据长期合同向炼油厂出售原油。海湾地区的大部分国家石油公司按对地区基准的溢价或折扣为他们的原油定价。对亚洲而言,这个基准就是阿曼和迪拜石油等级的平均价格。
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原文如下:
Saudi Aramco reduces pricing for Arab Light crude to Asia buyers
4/5/2016
RIYADH (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude exporter, cut pricing for May sales of its Arab Light oil grade to Asia as producers get set to meet in Doha to discuss a proposed output freeze.
State-run Saudi Arabian Oil Co. widened the discount for Arab Light crude to Asia by 10 cents a barrel to 85 cents below the regional benchmark, the company said in an emailed statement on Tuesday. That matched the expectation in a Bloomberg survey of six refiners and traders.
Saudi Aramco widened the discount for Arab Heavy crude to Asia by 35 cents a barrel to $3.65 less than the benchmark, according to the statement.
Middle Eastern producers are competing increasingly with cargoes from Latin America, North Africa and Russia for buyers in Asia, its largest market. Producers in the Persian Gulf region sell mostly under long-term contracts to refiners. Most of the Gulf’s state oil companies price their crude at a premium or discount to a benchmark. For Asia, the benchmark is the average of Oman and Dubai oil grades.