美国原油库存大幅下降油价上涨|新冠肺炎_新浪财经

原标题：美国原油库存大幅下降油价上涨

中国石化新闻网讯据路透社8月5日报道，石油价格周三上涨，此前库存数据显示美国原油库存大幅下降，但由于全球新冠肺炎病例不断增加，对燃料需求的担忧限制了油价上涨。

格林尼治标准时间07：13，布伦特原油价格上涨31美分，涨幅为0.7%，至每桶44.74美元。该合约周二上涨0.6%，达到3月6日以来的最高收盘价。

西德克萨斯中质原油价格上涨26美分，至每桶41.96美元，涨幅为0.6%。该合约周二收盘上涨1.7%，为7月底以来的最高收盘价。

根据行业组织美国石油学会(American Petroleum Institute)的数据，在截至8月1日的一周内，原油库存减少了860万桶，至5.2亿桶，降幅高于分析师减少300万桶的预期。

美国能源信息署(EIA)的官方数据于周三晚些时候公布。OANDA高级市场分析师Jeffrey Halley表示："降幅变大，几乎证实美国石油产量已大幅下滑，日降幅可能达数百万桶。这可能足以抵消人们对新冠肺炎疫情导致经济放缓的担忧，并推动油价走高，摆脱长达一个月的夏季低迷状态。”

但是，冠状病毒病例在全球继续上升。在美国，每天的死亡人数超过1000人，与此同时，数十个州不得不暂停或放缓重新开放经济的计划。

有迹象显示，国会民主党和白宫就新冠病毒救援方案的谈判开始朝着正确的方向迈进，尽管双方仍存在很大分歧，但这也助长了市场的乐观情绪。

本周公布的美国工厂数据也显示订单有所改善，部分分析师认为这缓解了市场对经济复苏风险的担忧。

周三公布的数据显示，7月份日本服务业连续第6个月萎缩，表明日本这个全球第三大经济体和第四大石油进口国的经济活动仍承受着疫情危机带来的压力。

王佳晶摘译自路透社

原文如下：

Oil prices rise as U.S. crude inventories show large drop

Oil prices rose on Wednesday after inventory data showed a big drop in U.S. crude stocks although gains were capped by concerns over fuel demand with mounting global COVID-19 cases.

Brent crude was up by 31 cents, or 0.7%, at $44.74 a barrel by 0713 GMT. The contract rose 0.6% on Tuesday to its highest close since March 6.

West Texas Intermediate oil was up by 26 cents, or 0.6%, at $41.96 a barrel. The contract ended Tuesday trading 1.7% higher, its highest close since late July.

Crude inventories fell 8.6 million barrels in the week to Aug. 1 to 520 million barrels, compared with analysts’ expectations for a drop of 3 million barrels, according to data from the American Petroleum Institute, an industry organization.

Official figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration are due out later on Wednesday.

“A much larger fall will all but confirm that U.S. oil production has fallen materially, by possibly millions of barrels a day,” said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at OANDA.

“That could be enough to overcome COVID-19 slowdown fears, and force oil prices higher, and out of their one-month summer doldrums,” he said.

But, coronavirus cases continue to rise globally. In the United States, deaths are at more than a 1,000 a day, while dozens of states have had to pause or scale back plans to reopen their economies.

Helping support sentiment were signs that talks between Democrats in Congress and the White House on a new package of coronavirus relief started moving in the right direction, although the two sides remain far apart.

U. S. factory data this week also showed an improvement in orders, which some analysts saw as offering relief to concerns about risks to any recovery.

Japan’ services sector contracted for a sixth consecutive month in July, data showed on Wednesday, suggesting activity in the world’s third-biggest economy and fourth-biggest oil importer remained under pressure from the health crisis.