美国将向市场提供超7000万桶战略石油储备能力

据4月5日NS Energy报道，当前，全球消费需求空前下降，迫使美国炼油商削减汽油、商用航空燃油和其他精炼产品的产量。

美国能源部(DOE)宣布，考虑立即将战略石油储备（SPR）的3000万桶石油储备能力提供给美国受市场严峻形势冲击的石油生产商，并打算之后将再提供4700万桶的储存能力。

需求暴跌导致炼油厂的原油需求减少，这加剧了全球石油供应过剩，增加了本已有限的原油存储的压力。储油空间不足正迫使油井过早关闭，并在经济上损害美国能源行业及其劳动力。SPR已做好准备，通过立即向美国石油生产商提供储油能力来缓解部分经济压力。

化石能源部助理部长史蒂文·温伯格（Steven Winberg）表示：“SPR将准备每天接收68.5万桶的石油，预计第一批原油将于4月底或5月初交付，具体取决于生产商的物流情况。SPR在墨西哥湾沿岸拥有广泛的储油、管道和海洋基础设施，将有助于缓解与石油相关的经济影响。”

邹勤 摘译自 NS Energy

原文如下：

US Department of Energy to make strategic petroleum reserve storage capacity available to struggling US oil producers

The unprecedented worldwide reduction in consumer demand caused by COVID-19 has forced U.S. refiners to dial back production of motor gasoline, commercial airline jet fuel, and other refined products.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced asolicitation to immediately make 30 million barrels of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s (SPR’s) oil storage capacity available to U.S. oil producers that are struggling with catastrophic financial losses due to the combined impacts of COVID-19 and the intentional disruption of world oil markets by foreign actors. The Department currently intends to make an additional 47 million barrels of storage capacity available thereafter.

The unprecedented worldwide reduction in consumer demand caused by COVID-19 has forced U.S. refiners to dial back production of motor gasoline, commercial airline jet fuel, and other refined products. This situation has reduced refinery crude oil demand, exacerbated a market glut of globally produced oil, and increased the need for already constrained crude oil storage. A lack of storage is forcing premature shut-in of oil wells and economically hurting the U.S. energy industry and its workforce. The SPR is well-positioned to relieve some of this economic stress by making storage capacity available to U.S. oil producers immediately.

To help alleviate financial hardship to the critical American energy sector, President Trump has directed the Secretary of Energy to fill the SPR to its maximum capacity.

“We expect the first crude oil deliveries to arrive in late-April or early-May depending on producer logistics. The SPR will be ready to receive up to 685,000 barrels per day,” explained Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Steven Winberg. “With its extensive storage, pipeline, and marine infrastructure along the Gulf Coast, the SPR will help relieve oil-related disruptions to our economy.”