壳牌提议将俄原油纳入布伦特原油定价基准

据道琼斯5月10日消息，壳牌公司已经提议调整布伦特原油价格基准，包括在该油价的设定过程中加入俄罗斯乌拉尔原油的价格，目前布伦特原油价格是基于四个不同品种的北海原油价格设定的。壳牌原油交易副总裁Mike Muller在标准普尔普氏全球原油峰会讲话时称：“当前市场运转良好，但需要尽快改革，包括扩大用于油价形成的原油品种。”标准普尔旗下的普氏能源资讯基准是洲际交易所布伦特原油期货合约的基础，布伦特油价是世界大多数原油的定价依据。

Muller称：“如果必须选择一个原油品种，乌拉尔原油就是其中一个选择，因为西北欧炼油厂的设计很适宜加工乌拉尔原油。”他还表示，该地区炼油厂所用石油品种通常偏向于北海原油和乌拉尔原油，因此布伦特油价应当反映这一点。

张春晓 摘译自 道琼斯

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Shell Proposes Including Russian Oil in Brent Benchmark

Royal Dutch Shell proposes a shakeup of the brent crude oil price benchmark including the addition of Russian urals in the price setting process which is currently based on four different grades of North Sea oil. Speaking at the S&P Platts Global Crude Summit, Mike Muller, vice president of crude-oil trading at Shell says "The market is currently functioning well," but changes need to be made soon, including widening the grades of oil used to inform the price. The S&P Platts benchmark underpins the ICE futures contract which the majority of the world's oil is priced off.

"If you had to pick one grade of crude, urals is the one which North West European refineries should be designed to run optimally," says Mr. Muller, adding that the average refinery diet in the region is skewed towards North Sea and urals so the benchmark should reflect that. "