疫情加剧使油价承压

据10月9日Offshore Technology报道，由于新冠肺炎病例激增，油价在本周末有所回落。

据路透社报道，布伦特原油LCOc1期货下跌0.08美元至每桶43.26美元，而美国西德克萨斯中质原油下跌0.05美元至每桶41.14美元。

挪威石油工人持续罢工，加上市场对疫情的担忧压倒了对供应过剩的担忧。与上周相比，布伦特原油和西德克萨斯中质原油价格都上涨了约10%。

Delta飓风将在数小时内袭击墨西哥湾沿岸地区，该地区的石油生产商已经撤离了海上设施，目前已停止了近150万桶/天的石油生产。

根据美国政府的数据显示，墨西哥湾7月份的石油产量为165万桶/天。该地区的原油产量占美国总产量的17%。在过去的几个月里，它遭到了几次暴风雨的严重袭击。

OANDA高级市场分析师爱德华?莫亚(Edward Moya)称:“未来几周，非欧佩克产油国的产量将受到重大打击，这将继续推动石油市场的再平衡。”

欧佩克秘书长穆罕默德?巴尔金多(Mohammad Barkindo)希望，在疫情导致今年油价暴跌之后，石油行业“最糟糕的时期已经过去”。

据约翰霍普金斯大学(Johns Hopkins University)的研究人员称，迄今为止，全球冠状病毒死亡人数为1057102人，全球感染人数超过3620万。

王佳晶 摘译自 Offshore Technology

原文如下：

Covid-19 pandemic weighs on oil prices

Oil prices have slipped at the end of the week due to surge in cases of Covid-19.

Brent LCOc1 futures were down by $0.08 to reach $43.26 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell $0.05 touching $41.14 a barrel, Reuters reported.

The pandemic concerns overrode the gains made oversupply concerns due to an ongoing strike by Norwegian oil workers.

Compared to last week, both Brent and the WTI benchmarks have made a weekly gain of about 10% this week. The rise in oil prices during this week due to the strike action by Norwegian oil workers.

With Hurricane Delta to strike the Gulf Coast within hours, oil producers in the region have already evacuated offshore facilities and halted nearly 1.5 million barrels per day (Mbpd) of oil output so far.

According to the US Government, the Gulf of Mexico produced 1.65Mbpd in July.

The region accounts for 17% of US crude output. It has been severely hit by several storms over the past few months.

OANDA senior market analyst Edward Moya was quoted by the news agency as stating: “Non-OPEC production is going to take a big hit over the next couple of weeks and this will continue to drive the rebalancing of the oil market.”

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) secretary-general Mohammad Barkindo hoped that the ‘worst was over’ for the oil industry following a price crash this year due to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

So far, the global coronavirus death toll is 1,057,102 according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Covid-19 infections exceeded 36.2 million worldwide.