美国原油库存增加 价格上涨受阻

据今日油价网站9月9日消息 美国石油协会（API）周二公布称，截至9月4日当周原油库存增加297.0万桶。

分析师曾预计库存将减少133.5万桶。

前一周，API公布称原油库存减少636.6万桶，此前分析师曾预计减少188.7万桶。

周二下午，在API公布数据之前，油价一直在上涨，但油价上涨是在前一天一个残酷的交易日之后，当时油价跌至6月份以来的最低水平。

数据发布前半小时，美国东部时间下午4:00，WTI上涨1.32美元（+3.59%），至38.08美元。虽然当天涨幅明显，但WTI仍比上周的水平高出近5美元/桶。布伦特原油基准价格在下午4点上涨了0.97美元（上涨2.44%），至40.75美元，也比上周的水平低了近5美元。

美国8月石油产量上较3月13日1310万桶/日的高位大幅下滑。 根据美国能源信息署（EIA）的数据，截至8月28日，美国石油产量目前为970万桶/日，低于3月高点的340万桶/日。

API公布称，截至8月28日当周汽油库存大幅减少689.2万桶，之前一周为576.1万桶。分析师此前预计，本周的原油开采量将大幅减少238.4万桶。

本周馏分油库存较上周的142.4万桶增加229.3万桶，而库欣库存增加260.8万桶。

美国东部时间下午4:33，WTI基准价格为38.00美元，布伦特原油价格为40.70美元。

王磊 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

Surprise Crude Oil Build Thwarts Price Rally

The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported on Tuesday a build in crude oil inventories of 2.970 million barrels for the week ending September 4.

Analysts had predicted an inventory draw of 1.335-million barrels.

In the previous week, the API reported a draw in crude oil inventories of 6.360 million barrels, after analysts had predicted a smaller draw of 1.887 million barrels.

Oil prices were trading up on Tuesday afternoon before the API’s data release, but the rising prices come only after a brutal trading day in the day prior when oil prices sunk to their lowest levels since June.

A half-hour before the data release, at 4:00 pm EDT, WTI had risen by $1.32 (+3.59%) to $38.08. While up significantly on the day, WTI is still trading nearly $5 per barrel under last week’s levels. The Brent crude benchmark had risen by $0.97 at 4:00 pm (+2.44%) to $40.75—also nearly $5 per barrel under last week’s levels

Oil production in the United States fell sharply for the last week in August, still down significantly from a high of 13.1 million bpd on March 13. U.S. oil production currently sits at 9.7 million bpd as of August 28, according to the Energy Information Administration—3.4 million bpd under March highs.

The API reported a large draw in gasoline inventories of 6.892 million barrels of gasoline for the week ending August 28—compared to last week’s 5.761-million-barrel draw. Analysts had expected a much smaller 2.384-million-barrel draw for the week.

Distillate inventories were up by 2.293 million barrels for the week, compared to last week’s 1.424-million-barrel draw, while Cushing inventory rose by 2.608 million barrels.

At 4:33 pm EDT, the WTI benchmark was trading at $38.00 while Brent crude was trading at $40.70.