美国主要枢纽油价跌破10美元/桶

据世界石油3月30日纽约报道，由于疫情引起的全球需求冲击，使得原油无处可去，北美主要城市的原油售价不到10美元。

疫情对需求的打击如此之大，以至于基准期货价格跌至18年来的最低水平，整个分销系统的石油供应都在增加，这使得生产商有可能需要关闭油井。一些受灾最严重的地区距离出口终端有数千英里之遥，这为石油出口国外市场或用油轮进行浮式储存提供了可能性。

美国各地的炼油厂，包括PBF能源公司、瓦莱罗能源公司和Phillips 66在内的多家公司都在放缓燃料生产，原因是对旅行和工作的限制导致汽油和航空燃油需求减少。受疫情影响，北大西洋炼油有限公司位于加拿大纽芬兰的日产量13万桶的炼油厂将停产两到五个月。

市场在供应过剩的压力下不堪重负，以至于美国的中游运营商，如“平原全美输油管道公司”，已经要求供应商减少石油产量，因为储存能力已经达到极限。

据彭博社采集的数据显示，位于怀俄明州根西岛的巴肯原油价格周一跌至每桶3.18美元的历史新低，而位于加拿大艾伯塔省哈迪斯蒂的西部精选石油的价格仅为4.18美元。甚至西德克萨斯的石油也前所未有的的便宜。位于米德兰的西德克萨斯中质原油价格为10.68美元，仅略高于1998年以来的历史最低水平。质量较差的同类产品西德克萨斯高硫原油跌至创纪录的7.18美元，为1988年以来的最低水平。

交易商表示，西德克萨斯中质原油周一的交易价约为每桶7.50美元，低于WTI米德兰基准价格。如果算上从井口运输的成本，这将意味着极轻质原油从地下开采出来时的价值几乎为零，即使不是负数也是如此。

随着世界各地的炼油厂纷纷放慢生产速度，即便是运往码头的石油也无法幸免于油价的暴跌。据交易员称，科珀斯克里斯蒂港出口的美国原油价格比7月份的布伦特原油低15美元。科珀斯克里斯蒂港是几条新建二叠纪输油管道的终点，也是一个主要的出口中心。

裘寅 编译自 世界石油

原文如下：

Oil selling below $10/bbl at key American hubs

Oil is selling for less than $10 across key North American hubs as the global demand shock from coronavirus leaves crude with nowhere to go.

The coronavirus pandemic has hit demand so hard that as benchmark futures plunge to lowest in 18 years, oil is backing up throughout the distribution system, raising the prospect that producers will need to shut in wells. Some of the hardest-hit areas have been those thousands of miles from export terminals, which would provide the possibility of escape, either to foreign markets or onto tankers as floating storage.

Refiners across the U.S., including PBF Energy Inc., Valero Energy Corp. and Phillips 66, are slowing fuel production as restrictions on travel and work has reduced gasoline and jet fuel demand to a trickle. North Atlantic Refining Ltd will be idling its 130,000-barrel-a-day refinery in Newfoundland, Canada, for two to five months due to the outbreak.

The market is groaning under the weight of this oversupply so much so that U.S. midstream operators such as Plains All American Pipelines have asked their suppliers to reduce oil production because storage capacity is reaching its limits.

Bakken crude in Guernsey, Wyoming, sank to a record-low $3.18 a barrel Monday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, while Western Canadian Select in Hardisty, Alberta, was worth just $4.18. Even oil in West Texas is as cheap as it’s ever been. West Texas Intermediate in Midland was $10.68, just above its all-time low from 1998. And it’s lower-quality counterpart, West Texas Sour, slid to a record $7.18, the lowest in data going back to 1988.

West Texas Intermediate Light, also known as WTL, traded at around $7.50 a barrel below the WTI Midland benchmark on Monday, traders said, the equivalent of about $3 a barrel outright. Including transportation costs from the wellhead, that would mean the very light crude is worth near-zero, if not negative, when it comes out of the ground.

Even oil that makes it to a dock isn’t immune from the price plunge, as refineries around the world slow down. U.S. oil for export from Corpus Christi -- the end point of several new Permian pipelines and a major exporting hub -- traded at $15 a barrel below July Brent, according to traders.