欧佩克成员国仍在尝试结束原油价格战

据原油新闻2020年3月27日伦敦报道，在沙特和俄罗斯之间爆发的石油价格战中主要是旁观者的欧佩克一些成员国仍在继续敦促达成一项新的削减产量协议，以遏制市场暴跌。

根据欧佩克的消息人士所说，今年担任欧佩克轮值主席国阿尔及利亚的能源部长穆罕默德·阿卡卜和他的工作人员一直非常积极地努力争取足够的支持，试图说服沙特阿拉伯考虑另一种选择。

但是，鉴于沙特阿拉伯迄今在其从4月开始逐步提高产量的计划上立场坚定，达成任何新的减产协议的前景似乎都很渺茫。

在伊拉克要求召开欧佩克紧急会议的呼吁未能获得支持后，阿卡卜的最新策略是要求召开欧佩克经济委员会理事会的代表级会议。

阿卡卜26日致信欧佩克秘书长穆罕默德·巴尔金多称：“召开代表级会议的目的是要评估当前市场状况和近期前景，探讨各种可能的情形，并就稳定石油市场的方法和途径交换意见。

阿卡卜要求巴尔金多在4月10日前组织一次经济委员会理事会的电话会议，并准备一份关于石油市场中短期前景的报告，供欧佩克成员国石油部长们审阅。

记者未能联系到巴尔金多请其置评，沙特能源部官员也未能联系到。

沙特官方通讯社27日的一篇报道称，沙特阿拉伯能源大臣阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹?本?萨勒曼王子和俄罗斯能源部长亚历山大?诺瓦克尚未就平衡石油市场的联合协议进行任何讨论，这表明这场价格战没有任何解决办法。

欧佩克事实上的领导者沙特阿拉伯宣布，该国将把原油产量提高大约三分之一，并将以创纪录的每天1230万桶的原油产量供应全球市场。

沙特阿拉伯的紧密盟友阿联酋也表示，该国将把原油日产量提高三分之一，达到400万桶。

诺瓦克曾表示，俄罗斯可以在短期内把原油日产量提高至多30万桶，在长期内提高50万桶，这将使其原油日产量达到近1100万桶。

一位不愿透露姓名的欧佩克代表对媒体表示：“市场情绪不太好消化”即将到来的供应激增。

调解沙特阿拉伯和俄罗斯之间争端的其它国际努力迄今尚未促成任何缓和，包括沙特阿拉伯国王萨勒曼·本·阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹26日主持的20国集团(G20)领导人视频会议峰会。

由于其页岩行业面临价格暴跌的风险，美国已敦促沙特阿拉伯缓和价格战，理由是疫情已经造成了全球经济大破坏。

经纪公司PVM Associates的分析师斯蒂芬?布伦诺克表示，全球石油市场“正面临严重的供应过剩”。他在27日发给客户的一份报告中表示：“结束(沙特与俄罗斯的)价格战在财务上是合理的，但双方似乎都可能在短期内坚持目前的立场。”“简而言之，回到价格支撑减产的时代目前只是一个白日梦。”

李峻 编译自 原油新闻

原文如下：

OPEC members still trying to broker an end to Saudi-Russia price war

Several OPEC members, largely bystanders suffering amid the Saudi-Russia oil price war, continue to press for a new production accord to stem the market rout.

Algerian energy minister Mohamad Arkab, who holds OPEC's rotating presidency this year, and his staff have been extremely active in attempting to round up enough support to try and convince Saudi Arabia to consider an alternative tack, according to sources in the organization.

But with the kingdom so far standing firm in its plans to ratchet up its production starting next month, the prospects of any new deal seem scant.

Arkab's latest gambit, after a call by Iraq for an emergency OPEC meeting failed to gain traction, is to call for a delegate-level meeting of the organization's Economic Commission Board.

"The objective of the meeting is to assess current market conditions and immediate prospects, to explore various scenarios, and to exchange views on ways and means to stabilize the oil market," Arkab wrote in a letter to OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo on Thursday.

He asked Barkindo to organize a teleconference of the ECB by April 10 and to prepare a report on the oil market's short- and medium-term prospects for ministers to review.

Barkindo could not be reached for comment, nor could Saudi energy ministry officials.

A report by the official Saudi Press Agency on Friday said that Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and Russian counterpart Alexander Novak have not held any discussions about a joint agreement to balance oil markets, indicating no resolution to the price war.

Saudi Arabia, the de facto leader of OPEC, has announced it will hike production by about a third and supply a record 12.3 million b/d of crude to the market.

Close ally the UAE has also said it will boost its output by a third to hit 4 million b/d.

Novak has said Russia could raise its production by up to 300,000 b/d in the short-term and 500,000 b/d in the long-term, which would bring its crude output to almost 11 million b/d.

"The market mood is not good to absorb" the coming supply surge, one OPEC delegate told the media on condition of anonymity.

Other international attempts to mediate the Saudi-Russia spat have yet to forge any detente, including a G20 leaders videoconference summit Thursday hosted by Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz.

The US, with its shale sector at risk of collapse from the price plunge, has urged Saudi Arabia to ease off the price war, citing the global economic havoc already wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic.

Stephen Brennock, an analyst with brokerage PVM Associates, said the oil market "is facing an oversupply of biblical proportion."

"Ending [the Saudi-Russia] price war would make financial sense but both sides seem likely to stick to their current course in the near-term," he said in a note to clients Friday. "In short, a return to the era of price supportive production cuts is currently a pipedream."