美国石油出口连续第五周下降

据道琼斯6月11日消息，尽管美国能源信息署（EIA）的数据显示，美国原油出口量在疫情爆发的初期表现良好，在截止5月1日当周攀升至350万桶/天，但此后一直在下降，分析人士表示，这一趋势可能会持续下去。EIA最新报告显示，美国原油出口量连续第五周下降至240万桶/日，创下7个月来的最低水平。晨星公司表示，一个关键的障碍是，美国原油出口实际上是在与自己竞争，因为3月和4月出口的原油都被运到油轮上储存，而不是用于炼油厂。如今，随着全球需求复苏导致油价上涨，持有这种浮动库存原油的投资者纷纷抛售。

张春晓 摘译自 道琼斯

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US Oil Exports Fall for 5th Straight Week

While EIA data shows US crude-oil exports held up well during the early part of the coronavirus pandemic outbreak, climbing to a solid 3.5M bpd for the week ended May 1, it's been all downhill since then, and analysts say the trend could continue. Today's EIA report shows a fifth straight week of declines, to 2.4M bpd, the lowest in seven months. Morningstar says a key hindrance is that US crude exports are essentially competing against themselves, because exports in March and April were sent abroad onto ships for storage, rather than being used at refineries. Now, as oil prices rise amid recovering global demand, investors in possession of that floating crude-in-storage are selling it.