IEA：全球石油存储将成难题

据彭博社4月15日报道，IEA表示，今年全球石油需求将创纪录地暴跌9%，近10年的需求增长将在2020年被抹去，届时石油日消费量将下降900多万桶。4月份将受到最严重的打击，燃料消费量将减少近三分之一，降至1995年以来的最低水平。尽管欧佩克及其合作伙伴上周末达成减产协议，将在下月实现前所未有的减产规模，但剩余的石油储备可能在今年年中耗尽。

需求的崩溃正促使供应出现大幅回调。沙特、俄罗斯和欧佩克联盟的其他石油输出国宣布，他们将在未来两个月内将日产量削减近1000万桶。国际能源署表示，这应该有助于将石油行业从比目前面临的更严重形势的边缘拉回来。

据该机构称，尽管欧佩克+做出了努力，但今年上半年全球石油库存仍将以每天1200万桶的速度增加。报告称，未来几周，石油供应过剩可能会压垮石油行业的物流设施——船舶、管道和储油罐。尽管沙特表示，IEA将详细说明欧佩克和G20集团其它产油国减产的贡献，但这些贡献仍在分析之中。

洪伟立 摘译自 彭博社

原文如下：

Oil Glut May Overwhelm Global Storage Tanks Within Weeks

Global oil demand will plunge by a record 9% this year due to coronavirus lockdowns, thwarting efforts by OPEC+ to contain the resulting glut of crude, the International Energy Agency said.

A decade of demand growth will be wiped out in 2020, when consumption will slump by just over 9 million barrels a day, the agency said in its monthly report. April will suffer the hardest hit, with fuel use contracting by almost a third to the lowest level since 1995.

While production cuts agreed the OPEC cartel and its partners at the weekend will bring about an unprecedented pullback in supply next month, facilities for storing the remaining surplus could be exhausted by the middle of the year.

The collapse in demand is prompting a similarly sharp pullback in supply.

Saudi Arabia, Russia and other exporter in the OPEC+ coalition announced that they will collectively slash output by just under 10 million barrels a day over the next two months. This “should help bring the oil industry back from the brink of an even more serious situation than it currently faces,” the IEA said.

Despite the efforts of OPEC+, global inventories will still accumulate by 12 million barrels a day in the first half of the year, according to the agency. The glut “threatens to overwhelm the logistics of the oil industry – ships, pipelines and storage tanks – in the coming weeks,” it warned.

While Riyadh said that the IEA would detail contribution to the OPEC+ production cuts from other producers in the Group of 20 nations, the report published on Wednesday said these are still being worked out.