據海事新聞8月6日消息稱，美國普查局周三公布的數據顯示，美國6月份向沙特阿拉伯發運了一批原油，這似乎是自2015年美國原油出口禁令結束以來的首次發運。

美國普查數據顯示，美國6月份向沙特阿拉伯發運了約55萬桶原油，即每天1.83萬桶。美國能源情報署沒有記錄顯示美國向沙特阿拉伯運送原油。

美國普查數據顯示，2002年運往沙特阿拉伯的石油只有區區1000桶。

6月份的貨物規模，甚至低于被稱為Aframax貨輪的最小型油輪的運量。交易員說，這批貨物可能是另一批運往其他國家的貨物的一部分。在Refinitiv Eikon的船舶跟蹤數據中，沒有從美國向沙特阿拉伯運送原油的記錄。

沙特阿拉伯是美國最大的原油供應國之一。五月份，該國每天發送約120萬桶原油，是三年來的最高水平，原因是沙特阿拉伯和俄羅斯之間爆發了一場短暫的油價戰爭，當時全球范圍內的冠狀病毒大流行正在惡化。

這導致石油供應嚴重過剩，以沙特阿拉伯為首的石油輸出國組織及其盟友同意減產970萬桶/天。歐佩克7月份石油日產量增加逾100萬桶，因沙特和其他海灣國家終止了在協議之外自愿增加的供應限制。

曹海斌 摘譯自 海事新聞

原文如下：

U.S. Sends First Crude Shipment to Saudi Arabia in Years

The United States sent a shipment of crude to Saudi Arabia in June, data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed on Wednesday, in what appears to be the first such delivery since the U.S. ban on crude exports ended in 2015.

The United States shipped about 550,000 barrels, or 18,300 barrels per day (bpd), of crude to Saudi Arabia in June, U.S. Census data shows. The U.S. Energy Information Administration has no recorded instances of a U.S. crude shipment to Saudi Arabia.

U.S. Census data shows a miniscule 1,000-barrel shipment to Saudi Arabia in 2002.

The size of June's cargo is less than what would be shipped even in the smallest class of crude tankers known as Aframax vessels. Traders said it is possible the cargo was part of another shipment headed to a different country. There are no records of a crude shipment to Saudi Arabia from the United States in Refinitiv Eikon vessel tracking data.

Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest suppliers of crude to the United States. It sent about 1.2 million barrels per day of crude in May, the most in three years, the result of a short-lived oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia that erupted just as the coronavirus pandemic was worsening worldwide.

That created a major supply glut, which the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, led by Saudi Arabia, and allies agreed to deal with by cutting output by 9.7 million bpd. OPEC oil output rose by more than 1 million bpd in July as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf members ended voluntary additional supply curbs on top of that deal.