石油设备网讯 据Oil & Gas Journal网站3月18日休斯顿报道 3月15日，纽约市场4月轻质低硫原油价格小幅下跌，但3月15日仍略高于58.50美元/桶。5月布伦特原油价格在伦敦市场也小幅下跌，但仍高于67美元/桶。
分析人士表示，主要产油国目前的石油减产，支撑了今年大部分时间的油价。供应协议由欧佩克和包括俄罗斯在内的一些非欧佩克国家牵头。
同时，分析师补充说，投资者对世界经济衰退的担忧可能会阻碍燃料消耗，并抑制油价。
盛宝银行大宗商品战略主管Ole Hansen表示，由于美元走软，截至3月15日的一周，世界大宗商品价格经历了“反弹”。石油是以美元交易的，因此美元走软使得用其他货币购买石油的买家更便宜。
Hansen说：“石油仍然受到供应紧缩的支持，无论是自愿的（来自沙特阿拉伯）还是被迫的，这对增长和未来原油需求的担忧在现阶段仍保持不变，市场对持续紧缩的供应作出反应。”
欧佩克和非欧佩克部长在阿塞拜疆巴库举行会议，监督他们的石油减产协议。沙特阿拉伯3月17日建议欧佩克延长120万桶/日的减产计划。
该减产协议目前定于6月到期，但如果生产商同意，它可能会延长到今年下半年。
沙特阿拉伯能源部长Khalid al-Falih说：“只要……库存在上升，我们离正常水平还很远，我们将保持这一趋势，引导市场走向平衡。”
王磊 摘译自 Oil & Gas Journal
原文如下：
Brent holds above $67/bbl despite world economic concerns
Light, sweet crude oil for April dropped modestly on the New York market Mar. 15 but still settled just above $58.50/bbl on Mar. 15 while Brent crude oil for May also dropped modestly in London but again settled above $67/bbl.
Analysts said existing oil production cuts by major producers have supported oil prices for much of the year. The supply agreement is led by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and some non-OPEC countries, including Russia.
Meanwhile, investor concerns about a world economic downturn could hinder fuel consumption and constrain oil prices, analysts added.
Ole Hansen, Saxo Bank head of commodity strategy, said world commodity prices experienced “a comeback” for the week ended Mar. 15 on a weakening US dollar. Oil is traded in US dollars so a weakening dollar makes oil cheaper for buyers starting with other currency.
“Oil remains supported by tightening supply, both voluntary (from Saudi Arabia) and forced,” Hansen said. “Worries about growth and future demand for crude oil remain just that at this stage, with the market instead responding to the continued tightening of supply.”
OPEC and non-OPEC ministers met in Baku, Azerbaijan, to monitor their oil production-cut agreement. Saudi Arabia suggested on Mar. 17 that OPEC might extend the 1.2 million b/d production-cut total.
That production-cut agreement currently is scheduled to expire in June, but it could be extended into the second half of this year if producers agree.
“As long as…inventories are rising, and we are far from normal levels, we will stay the course, guiding the market toward balance,” Saudi Arabia Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said.
