據油價網8月15日報道，美國石油協會（API）的數據顯示，美國原油庫存本周大幅減少了6195萬桶，此前上周出人意料地增加了4067萬桶。

分析師預計美國原油庫存將減少205萬桶。根據API的數據，今年迄今為止原油庫存總共凈增加了近1800萬桶，盡管自4月以來原油庫存凈減少了近3000萬桶。

周一，美國能源部（DoE）報告稱，戰略石油儲備（SPR）的原油庫存在8月14日的一周內增加了60萬桶，目前SPR庫存仍處于近40年來的低位，為3.484億桶。按照這個恢復速度，SPR需要在不到十年的時間內恢復到2021年的水平。

WTI和布倫特基準在周二早上交易時均有所下跌，持續擔憂經濟活動以及隨后的石油需求可能令人失望。到東部標準時間下午4時15分，WTI以每桶80.98美元的價格下跌1.85%，比上周同期下跌近2美元。布倫特原油以每桶84.90美元的價格下跌1.52%，比上周同期下跌1.10美元。

目前汽油庫存約比五年均值低7%。蒸餾油庫存下降了80萬桶，目前已經低于五年均值約17%。

美國能源信息署（EIA）的數據顯示，8月4日的一周內，美國原油產量增加了40萬桶/日，達到1260萬桶/日。如果數值準確，那將是多年來最大的單周產量增加。

俄克拉何馬州庫欣市的庫存再次減少了100萬桶，此前一周下降了11.2萬桶。

胡耀東 譯自 油價網

原文如下：

Oil Steady Despite Large Crude Draw

Crude oil inventories in the United States saw a large draw this week of 6.195 million barrels, the American Petroleum Institute (API) data showed on Tuesday, after last week’s surprise 4.067 million barrel build.

Analysts were expecting a draw of 2.050 million barrels in U.S. crude-oil inventories. The total number of barrels of crude oil gained so far this year is nearly 18 million barrels, according to API data, although there is a net draw in crude inventories since April of almost 30 million barrels.

On Monday, the Department of Energy (DoE) reported that crude oil inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) rose by 600,000 barrels in the week ending August 14, with the SPR inventory still sitting at a near 40-year low of 348.4 million barrels. At that rate of replenishment, the SPR should return to 2021 levels in a little under a decade.

The WTI and Brent benchmarks were both trading down on Tuesday morning in the run-up to the data release on continued fear about  economic activity and subsequent oil demand being a disappointment. By 4:15 p.m. EST, WTI was trading down 1.85%, at $80.98 per barrel—down nearly $2 per barrel from this time last week. Brent crude was trading down 1.52% at $84.90—down $1.10 from this time last week.

Gasoline inventories saw a build this week, rising by 700,000 barrels, more than offsetting last week’s 413,000 barrels dip in the week prior. Gasoline inventories are roughly 7% less than the five-year average for this time of year. Distillate inventories fell by another 800,000 barrels, after the 2.093 million barrel draw in the week prior, and are already sitting somewhere around 17% below the five-year average for this time of year.

EIA data suggests that crude oil production in the United States rose by 400,000 bpd to 12.6 million bpd for the week ending August 4. If that weekly estimate turns out to be close to accurate, that would be the single largest weekly production increase in years.

Inventories at Cushing, Oklahoma, fell by another million barrels, after falling by 112,000 barrels in the previous week.