石油设备网讯 据彭博社3月23日消息称，在加州圣华金河谷的金山上，千斤顶开采着世界上最昂贵的原油。
在这里Buena Vista油田原油的发布价格为每桶70.53美元，比西德克萨斯中质原油期货高出10多美元，比布伦特原油高出近3美元。这种石油的价格也比迪拜和阿曼等国际等级的石油要高。Buena Vista原油产量并不高。国家数据显示，2017年全年，这个有百年历史的油田共开采了约120万桶石油，相当于每天开采3000多桶。
加州炼油商与美国在德克萨斯州和北达科他州日益增长的页岩气产量几乎没有关系，因此只能依赖加州自己不断减少的供应。非本地生产的产品必须由油轮从阿拉斯加、沙特阿拉伯和其他偏远地区运来。在欧佩克供应减产之际，这种依赖让加州的原油变得更有价值。
曹海斌 摘译自 彭博社
原文如下：
Some of World's Most Expensive Oil Is Being Pumped in California
In the golden hills of California’s San Joaquin Valley, oil jacks pump what is among the world’s most expensive types of crude.
Buena Vista’s posted price is $70.53 a barrel, more than $10 above West Texas Intermediate futures and almost $3 more than Brent. The oil is also more expensive than international grades such as Dubai and Oman. Not much Buena Vista crude is produced. about 1.2 million barrels were pumped from the century-old field in all of 2017, or a little more than 3,000 a day, state data show.
California refiners have few links to the U.S.’s growing shale production in Texas and North Dakota and are therefore reliant on the state’s own diminishing supplies. What isn’t produced locally must be shipped in by tanker from Alaska, Saudi Arabia and other far off locations. This dependence has made California crude more valuable at a time of that production cuts by OPEC and its allies.
