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供大於求恐慌 美國石油跌破50元大關 2015年 1月 5日 美國石油價格跌破每桶50美元的大關,這是自2009年4月以來的第一次。 布倫特原油價格周一也大幅下跌超過6%,每桶不到53美元。 布倫特原油和美國石油價格都被稱為西德克薩斯中間基原油價格,這種國際石油市場的基凖價格自2014年中期以來已經跌過了大半。投資者擔心,世界石油供大於求以及需求疲弱將導致石油價格進一步下跌。 美國的頁岩油生產使得近期石油產量大幅飆升,而世界石油產量增加的同時,全世界的經濟,包括歐洲國家和中國經濟都不再保持過去對石油的大量需求。與此同時,石油輸出國組織——歐佩克的成員國卻決定繼續保持現有的開採量。 綜合以上因素,過去幾個月,包括埃克森石油、英國石油公司等世界大石油公司的股票都大幅下跌。 |
Crude Oil Dips Under $50 A Barrel, A Price Last Seen In 2009
npr January 05, 2015 4:13 PM ET The price for a barrel of U.S. oil benchmark West Texas Intermediate fell below $50 Monday, matching levels seen in the spring of 2009. The drop is linked to both OPEC's boosted production and a stronger dollar. Oil's latest fall came along with a dip on Wall Street, as the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 330 points to finish at 17,501 — a drop of 1.86 percent that's also seen as a reaction to new instability in Europe. Petroleum has been in a free fall: In the U.S., the average cost for a gallon of regular gasoline has fallen from above $3.60 to below $2.20 since June, according to AAA. The sharp drop has come as OPEC member nations seek to protect their market share by raising production levels to undercut profits for U.S. oil companies. Both Iraq and Russia are now producing crude at record levels, as Bloomberg News reports. "People are thinking about promises from OPEC, mostly Saudi Arabia, that they'll continue to produce at very high levels," TD Securities commodity strategy chief Bart Melek tells Agence France-Presse. "On the demand side of the equation, what we're getting is basically a lack of demand growth ... as Europe is potentially in crisis." The cheaper oil and gas prices come along with a surging dollar, which reached a nine-year high against the euro earlier Monday. As Krishnadev reported for the Two-Way, the reasons for that gain include renewed instability in Greece and the possibility that the European Central Bank "could introduce quantitative easing to stimulate the eurozone." For many in the American oil industry, a central question has been whether companies can keep developing oil fields, even as the financial incentive to do so keeps shrinking. As the industry site Fuel Fix notes today, the number of working U.S. oil rigs has fallen more in the past two weeks than in any similar period since 2009. "The number of rigs operating in the United States declined by 29 last week to 1,811," the site reports, "marking the fourth consecutive weekly decrease for the U.S. count, published by oil field services company Baker Hughes." |
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