据今日油价网站2021年12月31日消息 美国能源部周四批准第三次交换200万桶原油，从战略石油储备（SPR）中释放给埃克森美孚，作为政府提高燃料供应和降低汽油价格努力的一部分。
到目前为止，美国能源部根据授权，已经向各公司提供了700多万桶SPR原油，其中包括去年12月早些时候授予的两个交易合同。
能源部周四表示：“与所有交易一样，通过交易接收SPR原油的公司同意返还收到的原油数量以及额外数量，具体取决于他们持有原油的时间长短。”
这些交易是美国政府11月底宣布的计划的一部分，该计划旨在与其他主要石油消费国合作，从SPR中释放5000万桶石油，以降低高油价。美国能源部将从SPR中释放5000万桶石油，其中3200万桶将在未来几个月以交换的形式释放，这些石油必须在未来几年返回战略石油储备。白宫当时表示，另外1800万桶石油将被释放，以加速国会先前批准的未来几个月的石油销售。
SPR的发布主要是由石油市场参与者定价，并没有显著降低美国的汽油价格，美国的汽油价格在秋季达到了七年来的最高水平。
最近几周，由于市场担心奥密克戎变种会减缓全球石油需求复苏，美国汽油价格与国际原油价格的下跌同步。
本周早些时候，GasBuddy表示，美国汽油价格尚未见顶。GasBuddy在其2022年燃料价格展望中表示，油价飙升还没有结束：2022年，在任何缓解措施到来之前，全国平均每加仑汽油价格可能会达到4美元。
王磊 摘译自 今日油价
原文如下：
U.S. Loans SPR Crude To ExxonMobil
The U.S. Department of Energy approved on Thursday a third exchange of two million barrels of crude oil for release to ExxonMobil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as part of the Administration’s efforts to boost fuel availability and lower gasoline prices.
So far, the U.S. DOE, as authorized , has provided more than seven million barrels of SPR crude oil to companies, including the two previous exchanges awarded earlier in December.
“As with all exchanges, companies that receive SPR crude oil through the exchange agree to return the amount of crude oil received, as well as an additional amount, dependent upon the length of time in which they hold the oil,” DOE said on Thursday.
The exchanges are part of the Administration’s intention announced at the end of November to release 50 million barrels of oil from the SPR in a bid to lower high gasoline prices in a coordinated effort with other major oil-consuming nations. The U.S. Department of Energy will make available releases of 50 million barrels from the SPR, of which 32 million barrels will be in the form of an exchange over the next several months, releasing oil that must be returned to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the years ahead. Another 18 million barrels will be released as an acceleration into the next several months of a sale of oil that Congress had previously authorized, the White House said at the time.
The SPR release was largely priced in by oil market participants and hasn’t contributed to lowering significantly gasoline prices in America, which hit a seven-year high in the autumn.
Prices at the pump have dropped in recent weeks in lockstep with the decline in international crude oil prices due to market fears that the Omicron COVID variant would slow global oil demand recovery.
U.S. gasoline prices haven’t peaked yet, fuel savings platform GasBuddy said earlier this week. The gas price surge isn’t over: $4 per gallon national average could happen in 2022 before any relief arrives, GasBuddy said in its 2022 Fuel Price Outlook.
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