美国释放创纪录战略储备令国际能源署合作伙伴惊讶

，据油价网5月9日报道，知情人士周一对路透表示，美国战略石油储备(SPR)创纪录的1.8亿桶的释出令国际能源署(IEA)感到意外，因为政府尚未通知IEA大规模释出石油的消息。

3月31日，美国政府宣布了历史上最大的石油储量释放，在未来6个月里，平均每天增加100万桶石油供应。白宫当时表示，这是在与盟友和合作伙伴磋商后做出的。

这一创纪录的SPR数据是白宫所称的“应对地缘政治冲突导致油价上涨”计划的一部分。

据路透社消息，国际能源机构的成员开始担心，美国政府使用SPR(包括最近的大规模释放)是出于美国的政治目的，因为美国正忙于应对不断上涨的汽油价格和高通胀。

消息人士对路透社表示，美国的声明令IEA感到意外，其成员国纷纷宣布各自的数据。

美国能源部向路透社证实，美国释放石油的决定是“独立于”国际机构的。不过，美国能源部未就其是否已在宣布这一消息之前通知国际能源署置评。

国际能源署最近公布了在6个月内释放1.827亿桶紧急石油库存的细节。其中大约四分之三将来自公开发行的股票，剩下的四分之一将来自降低国家对工业企业的持股义务。国际能源署成员国4月初宣布，将在6个月内从紧急石油库存中再释放1.2亿桶原油。几天前，美国公布了创纪录的SPR释放量。IEA最新的1.2亿桶原油释放量中的6000万桶已经被计入美国3月底宣布的1.8亿桶SPR释放量的一部分。

季廷伟 摘译自 油价网

原文如下：

Record U.S. Strategic Oil Release Surprised IEA Partners

The record 180-million release from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) came as a surprise for the International Energy Agency when it was announced in late March, since the Administration hadn’t informed the IEA the massive release was coming, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday.

On March 31, the Administration announced the largest release of oil reserves in history, putting one million additional barrels on the market per day on average for the next six months. This was made “after consultation with allies and partners,” the White House said at the time.

The record SPR release was part of measures included in what the White House said was “President’s Plan.”

According to Reuters sources, members of the IEA have started to be concerned that the U.S. Administration is using SPR releases—including this latest massive release – for political purposes in the United States, where President Biden scrambles to respond to the rising gasoline prices and high inflation.

The U.S. announcement left the IEA surprised and its members scrambling to announce their releases of their own, the sources told Reuters.

The U.S. Energy Department confirmed to Reuters that the U.S. decision to release the oil was “independent” of the international agency. The department, however, did not comment on whether it had informed the IEA in advance of the announcement. 

The IEA, for its part, has recently unveiled the details of the release of 182.7 million barrels of oil from emergency stocks over six months. Roughly three-fourths of this will come from public stocks and the remaining fourth from lowering national stockholding obligations set on industry. IEA members announced in early April they would release an additional 120 million barrels from their emergency oil stocks over a six-month period, days after the U.S. announced the record SPR release. A total of 60 million barrels of the latest IEA release of 120 million has already been accounted for as part of the 180 million barrel SPR release that the United States announced at the end of March.