最近的拋售并不意味著石油市場崩潰

市場“運轉良好”，簡單的答案是“石油市場急劇轉向過剩”

第三季度石油市場過剩為182萬桶/天

據油價網9月15日報道，渣打銀行大宗商品分析師表示，由于油價持續暴跌，原油產量意外增加和戰略石油儲備再次釋放引發了最新一輪拋售，但石油市場并沒有從根本上崩潰，而只是對市場石油過剩做出反應。  

渣打銀行周四在其最新的大宗商品市場報告中表示，全球石油市場目前處于供應過剩狀態，第三季度美國平均每天將向商業庫存轉移83萬桶石油。 

渣打銀行的分析師估計第三季度的石油過剩為每天182萬桶，并指出預測——尤其是來自美國投資銀行的預測——表明油價可能達到每桶150美元是錯誤的預測，市場“還沒有完全反映出這種假設被證明是錯誤的程度”。

盡管預測者將近期油價暴跌歸咎于市場機制失靈、波動、交易商非理性和流動性不足，但渣打銀行分析師表示，石油市場“運轉良好”，簡單的答案是“石油市場急劇轉向過剩”。  

渣打銀行在報告中寫道，如今，“由于全球石油供應大量過剩，以及這些轉移可用于重建庫存，美國第三季度的石油數據主要是看跌的，”并補充稱，“美國能源信息署最新發布的數據延續了這一趨勢，美國石油數據空頭下降8.3，至非常看跌的-70.0。”

渣打銀行將9月份需求的初步跡象描述為“疲弱”，指出“除其他油類外，所有產品的需求均同比下降”。其中餾分油數據尤其疲弱，庫存增加422萬桶，隱含需求為20個月來最低。

李峻 編譯自 油價網

原文如下：

The Oil Market Isn’t Broken, It’s Just Responding To A Supply Surplus

·     Standard Chartered: The latest selloff doesn’t mean the market is broken.

·     Standard Chartered analysts say the market is “well-functioning” and the simple answer is a “sharp swing into surplus”.

·     StanChart analysts estimate the Q3 surplus at 1.82 million barrels per day.

As oil prices continue to plunge, with the latest selloff triggered by a surprise crude build and another release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, commodity analysts at Standard Chartered say the oil market is not fundamentally broken but is rather merely responding to a surplus. 

In its latest commodities market update on Thursday, StanChart says that the global oil market is currently in excess supply, with the U.S. transferring an average 0.83 million barrels per day (mb/d) into commercial inventories in the third quarter. 

StanChart analysts estimate the Q3 surplus at 1.82 million barrels per day, and suggest that forecasts–notably from U.S. investment banks–that were indicating the potential for $150 oil were wrong and that the market “has not yet fully priced in the extent to which that assumption proved wrong”. 

While forecasters have blamed market mechanism failures, volatility, trader irrationality and low liquidity for the recent plunge in oil prices, Standard Chartered analysts say the market is “well-functioning” and the simple answer is a “sharp swing into surplus”.  

Now, “with a large global flow surplus and those transfers available to rebuild inventories, US oil data has been mainly bearish in Q3,” Standard Chartered writes, adding that “The latest Energy Information Administration (EIA) release continues that trend, with our US oil data bull-bear falling 8.3 w/w to a highly bearish -70.0.” 

Standard Chartered described early indications of September demand as “weak”, noting that “demand for all products is lower y/y except other oils. The distillate data was particularly weak, with a sharp 4.22mb inventory build and the lowest implied demand in 20 months.”