苏伊士运河堵塞可能影响1300万桶原油

据油价网2021年3月24日报道，石油分析公司Vortexa称，多达10艘载有大约1300万桶原油的油轮可能受到苏伊士运河交通中断的影响。2月24日早间，一艘巨型集装箱船搁浅导致苏伊士运河交通受阻。

Vortexa指出，苏伊士运河大约每天积压大约50艘船，任何导致改道的延误将使中东和欧洲之间的航程增加15天。

据美国能源信息署（EIA）估计，全球大约12%的贸易和大约9%的海运石油(包括原油和成品油)通过苏伊士运河和SUMED管道。

根据Vortexa的数据，今年迄今为止，通过苏伊士运河的原油和石油产品的三大出口国分别是俄罗斯(54.6万桶/天)、沙特阿拉伯(41万桶/天)和伊拉克(40万桶/天)。

今年迄今为止，通过苏伊士运河的原油和石油产品的3大进口国分别是印度(49万桶/天)、和韩国(38万桶/天)等。

Vortexa表示，“如果油轮开始转向海角，任何吨位英里的增加都将增加油轮的运费率，并在短期内支持运费的上升。”

这艘400米(1312英尺)长的集装箱船，基本上是一艘摩天大楼大小的船，在苏伊士运河搁浅，并被困在运河最狭窄的航道上，使其他船只和油轮——包括南北航行的船只——无法通过。

这条最繁忙的石油贸易路线的交通堵塞导致油价在周二又一次大规模下跌后，在周三早盘上涨。

就在EIA周三公布每周库存报告之前，两项指标均上涨逾3%，其中WTI原油价格接近回到60美元，布兰特原油价格升至62.75美元。

李峻 编译自 油价网

原文如下：

13 Million Barrels Of Oil Could Be Affected By Suez Canal Blockage

As many as 10 crude tankers carrying around 13 million barrels of oil could be affected by the disrupted traffic in the Suez Canal, which was blocked early on Wednesday when a huge container ship ran aground, oil analytics firm Vortexa said.

The approximate rate of backlog is around 50 vessels per day, and any delays leading to re-routings will add 15 days to a voyage between the Middle East and Europe, Vortexa noted.

Some 12 percent of global trade, and about 9 percent of total seaborne traded petroleum, including crude oil and refined petroleum products, passes through the Suez Canal and SUMED Pipeline, according to EIA estimates.

The top three exporters of crude oil and oil products via the Suez Canal so far in 2021 were Russia with 546,000 barrels per day (bpd), Saudi Arabia with 410,000 bpd, and Iraq with 400,000 bpd, according to Vortexa.

The top three importers of crude and petroleum products year to date were India with 490,000 bpd, and South Korea with 380,000 bpd and etc.

“If tankers start diverting towards the Cape, any increase in tonne-miles will increase tanker utilisation and support rising freight rates in the short-term,” Vortexa said.

The 400-meter (1,312-foot-long) container ship Ever Given, which is basically a ship the size of a skyscraper, ran aground in the Suez Canal and remained stuck sideways in the narrowest path of the canal, leaving other ships and tankers—both north- and south-bound—unable to pass.

The traffic blockage at one of the busiest oil trade routes sent oil prices rising early on Wednesday, after another massive sell-off on Tuesday.

Just before the EIA weekly inventory report on Wednesday, both benchmarks were rising by more than 3 percent, with WTI Crude nearly back to $60 and Brent Crude prices up at $62.75.