石油设备网讯 据普氏能源资讯5月15日新加坡报道，亚洲原油期货周三上午交易时段走低，上周美国原油库存意外增加，同时全球供应持续紧张限制了价格下跌。
新加坡时间上午10点10分(格林尼治时间0210)，洲际交易所7月份布伦特原油期货价格较周二结算价下跌11美分/桶(0.15%)，至每桶71.13美元，纽约商交所6月份轻质低硫原油期货价格下跌30美分/桶(0.49%)，至每桶61.48美元。
据分析师援引美国石油学会(American Petroleum Institute)数据显示，截至5月13日的一周，美国原油库存增加860万桶。
标普全球普氏能源资讯周一调查的分析师预计，同期美国原油库存将减少230万桶。
分析师称，API还显示汽油库存增加56.7万桶，馏分油库存增加220万桶。
分析人士周三表示，尽管API的悲观报告压低了油价，但其它地区持续的供应紧张局面限制了油价下跌。
周二，在胡塞(Houthi)反政府武装声称发动的袭击切断了沙特阿拉伯通往红海的主要石油运输管道后，围绕中东石油流入威胁的紧张局势急剧升级。
与此同时，欧佩克分析机构周二表示，由于地缘政治局势再度紧张，预计未来几个月全球石油市场将进一步收紧，但由于“2019年全球经济增长的上行潜力仍然有限”，该机构维持了2019年石油需求增长数据不变。
欧佩克在其月度石油市场报告中估计，2019年对其原油的平均需求将达到3058万桶/天，较上年同期减少101万桶/天，这意味着全球石油库存将从目前水平大幅下降。
欧佩克4月份原油产量基本保持区间波动，从上月的每日3000桶下降至303.1万桶。
薛珂 摘译自 普氏能源资讯
原文如下：
Crude oil futures fall on API data; supply tightness caps decline
Crude oil futures were lower during mid-morning trade in Asia Wednesday, amid a surprise build reported in US crude stocks last week while ongoing global supply tightness capped the price fall.
At 10:10 am Singapore time (0210 GMT), July ICE Brent crude futures were down 11 cents/b (0.15%) from Tuesday's settle to $71.13/b, while the NYMEX June light sweet crude contract lost 30 cents/b (0.49%) at $61.48/b.
According to analyst reports quoting data from the American Petroleum Institute, US crude stocks for the week ended May 13 rose by 8.6 million barrels.
Analysts surveyed Monday by S&P Global Platts were looking for US crude stocks to have declined by 2.3 million barrels for the same period.
The API also reportedly showed stockpile increases of 567,000 barrels in gasoline and 2.2 million barrels in distillates, analysts said.
While the bearish report from the API, pushed prices lower, ongoing supply-side tensions elsewhere capped the price fall, analysts said Wednesday.
Tensions over threats to oil flows from the Middle East escalated sharply Tuesday, after an attack claimed by Houthi rebels halted flows through Saudi Arabia's main oil transport pipeline to the Red Sea.
Meanwhile, OPEC's analysis arm said Tuesday that it expects the global oil market to tighten further in the coming months amid renewed geopolitical tensions, but kept its 2019 oil demand growth figure steady as the "upside potential for global economic growth in 2019 remains limited."
In its monthly oil market report, OPEC estimates that demand for its crude will average 30.58 million b/d in 2019, a fall of 1.01 million b/d on the year, suggesting that global oil inventories are going to decline sharply from current levels.
OPEC crude output remained largely rangebound in April, with output falling 3,000 b/d from the previous month to 30.031 million b/d, according to the monthly report.
