今年上半年美国燃料出口创纪录

据油价网9月26日报道，美国能源信息署（EIA）周一表示，2022年上半年美国石油产品出口增长11%，达到创纪录的600万桶/日，出口增长速度为五年来最快。

根据可以追溯到1973年的EIA月度数据显示，今年上半年的出口量是最高的，其中馏分燃料油和含丙烷的烃气液（HGLs）出口量最大。

今年上半年，美国汽车汽油出口也增长了11%，达到创纪录的91万桶/天，而航空燃油出口较去年同期增长了一倍多。

全球对蒸馏燃料的需求不断增长，世界上的低库存，以及地缘政治冲突后贸易流动的中断，导致美国蒸馏燃料出口今年1-6月跃升19%。

这些石油产品对欧洲的出口尚未增加，因为欧盟禁止通过海运进口石油产品的禁令要到2023年2月才生效。然而，根据EIA的数据显示，拉丁美洲一直是美国蒸馏燃料出口的一个非常大且不断增长的市场。

由于欧盟制裁尚未生效，EIA表示，我们没有看到美国对欧洲出口的预期增长，相反，2022年上半年对欧洲的出口下降到7.1万桶/日，而美国对拉丁美洲的馏分油出口增加到逾100万桶/日。

与此同时，据《华尔街日报》获得的美国能源部长格兰霍姆（Jennifer Granholm）上个月致七家大型炼油企业的一封信显示，在美国国内石油库存较低的情况下，政府据说已敦促美国炼油企业限制燃料出口。

根据该杂志显示，格兰霍姆在信中写道，鉴于美国成品油出口的历史水平，我再次敦促你在短期内专注于增加美国的库存，而不是抛售现有库存并进一步增加出口。

郝芬 译自 油价网

原文如下：

U.S. Fuel Exports Broke Records In The First Half Of 2022

U.S. exports of petroleum products jumped by 11% to a record 6 million barrels per day (bpd) in the first half of 2022, with exports growing at their fastest pace in five years, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Monday.

This year's first-half exports were the highest in EIA monthly data going back to 1973, with distillate fuel oil and hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGLs), which include propane, representing the largest volumes.

U.S. motor gasoline exports also increased, by 11%, to reach a record of 910,000 bpd for the first half of 2022, while jet fuel exports more than doubled compared with the same period last year.  

Growing global demand for distillate fuel, low inventories in the world, and the disruption of trade flows after the war resulted in a 19% jump in American distillate fuel exports between January and June.

Exports of those petroleum products to Europe haven’t increased yet because the EU ban on imports of petroleum products by sea doesn’t enter into force until February 2023. However, according to the EIA, Latin America has been a very large and growing market for U.S. distillate fuel exports.

Because the EU sanctions have not yet gone into effect, “we have not seen the expected increase in U.S. exports to Europe, and instead exports to Europe decreased to 71,000 b/d in the first half of 2022, while U.S. distillate exports to Latin America increased to more than 1 million b/d,” the EIA said.

At the same time, amid low inventories at home, the Administration has reportedly urged American refiners to limit their fuel exports, according to a letter U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm sent last month to seven big refiners obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

“Given the historic level of U.S. refined product exports, I again urge you to focus in the near term on building inventories in the United States, rather than selling down current stocks and further increasing exports,” Secretary Granholm wrote in the letter, according to the Journal.