周三早盘原油价格攀升，WTI价格攀升至每桶71美元以上，布伦特价格攀升至每桶75美元以上

对美国经济健康状况和弱于预期的复苏的担忧仍在拖累石油市场

对美国库存持续下降的估计，以及IEA对需求的乐观展望，给了石油市场亟须的提振

据油价网2023年5月17日报道，原油价格周三早盘收复失地，小幅走高，分析师预计今年晚些时候市场平衡将日益趋紧。

截至美国东部时间周三上午7时20分，在美国能源信息署（EIA）公布美国每周石油库存状况报告之前，美国基准WTI原油价格当日上涨0.41%，至每桶71.11美元。国际基准布伦特原油价格上涨0.40%，至每桶75.16美元。

由于对美国经济健康状况和经济复苏的担忧持续存在，原油价格涨幅有限。

美国债务上限谈判的僵局本周也令石油市场承压。

但对美国燃料库存持续下降的估计支撑了油价。

美国石油学会(API)周二估计，截至5月12日当周美国汽油库存减少246万桶，馏分油库存减少88.6万桶。

IEA目前预计，今年全球石油日需求量将增加220万桶，至创纪录的1.02亿桶，比4月的预测上调20万桶。IEA周二表示，过去几周油价下跌与今年晚些时候市场料将趋紧形成鲜明对比，届时全球石油日需求量将超过供应量近200万桶。

李峻 编译自 油价网

原文如下：

Oil Prices Rise Amid Expectations Of A Tightening Market

·     Oil prices climbed early on Wednesday morning, with WTI up above $71 and Brent trading above $75.

·     Estimates of continued drawdowns in U.S. inventories and the IEA’s bullish outlook for demand gave oil markets a much-needed boost.

Oil prices reversed losses and edged higher early on Wednesday as analysts expect an increasingly tighter market balance later this year.

As of 7:20 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, ahead of the EIA’s weekly petroleum status report on inventories in the United States, the U.S. benchmark, WTI Crude, was up by 0.41% on the day at $71.11. The international benchmark, Brent Crude, was trading 0.40% higher at $75.16.  

Price gains were limited due to continued concerns over the health of the U.S. economy and the patchy recovery .

The impasse in the negotiations on the U.S. debt ceiling has also weighed on the oil market this week.

But estimates of continued drawdowns in U.S. fuel inventories were supportive of oil prices.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated on Tuesday that U.S. gasoline inventories fell by 2.46 million barrels in the week to May 12. Distillate inventories declined by 886,000 barrels.

The IEA now sees global oil demand rising by 2.2 million bpd to a record 102 million bpd this year, as it revised up its forecast by 200,000 bpd from last month’s report. The decline in oil prices over the past few weeks contrasts with an expected tightening of the market later this year when demand is set to exceed supply by nearly 2 million bpd, the IEA said on Tuesday.