据美国彭博新闻社3月10日卡尔加里报道,加拿大油田半个世纪向美国市场出口石油的状况在特朗普的“美国第一”时代将放松为一次装载一艘油轮。
一名知情人士上个月曾说,2月份,在紧跟一船油砂货物从美国墨西哥湾沿岸运往印度以后(印度信诚工业公司将在4月份接收第一船加拿大重油),一艘油轮在加拿大纽芬兰岛海上装载石油并将在海上航行1万多海里运抵中国。
对一个在去年本国大约99%原油产量出口到美国的国家来说,加拿大原油最近流向亚洲对许多加拿大生产商和政治领导者来说无疑是一个受欢迎的多元化迹象。
总部设在卡尔加里的北美最大管道运营商安桥公司首席执行官阿尔?摩纳哥本周在休斯敦举行的CERAWeek能源会议上说:“不管什么业务,你不想只有一个市场,因此,我认为加拿大扩大其进入其能够进入的市场将继续是重要的。”
李峻 编译
原文如下:
Canada oil dependence on U.S. loosens in age of President Trump
3/10/2017
CALGARY (Bloomberg) -- The Canadian oil patch’s half-century bond to the U.S. market is loosening one tanker load at a time in Donald Trump’s “America First” era. Last month, a ship loaded oil off Newfoundland and set sail on a 10,000-plus nautical mile journey to China, following on the heels of an oil sands cargo shipped from the U.S. Gulf Coast. India-based Reliance Industries is set to receive the first shipment of heavy Canadian crude in April, a person familiar said last month.
For a country that sent about 99% of its crude exports to the U.S. last year, the recent flow to Asia is a welcome sign of diversification to many Canadian producers and political leaders.
“With any kind of business, you don’t want to have just one market so I think it will continue to be important that Canada expand its access to markets wherever it can,” Al Monaco, chief executive officer of Calgary-based Enbridge Inc., North America’s biggest pipeline operator, said this week at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston.