據今日油價4月17日報道，俄羅斯和沙特阿拉伯能源部長在一份聯合聲明中表示，該兩國可能準備實施進一步的減產以穩定價格。

彭博社援引該聲明的話稱，兩國將“繼續密切監視石油市場，并準備在必要時與歐佩克+組織和其他生產國聯合采取進一步措施?！?/span>

上周，歐佩克同意從下個月開始減產970萬桶/天，并一直持續到6月底，此后，歐佩克將開始逐步提高產量。

5—6月的每日減產970萬桶，7—12月，削減將降至每日770萬桶，到2022年4月底，再進一步降至每日580萬桶。

然而，由于疫情影響需求繼續急劇下降。路透社約翰·肯普(JohnKemp)在他的每周專欄中寫道，僅美國（世界上最大的石油消費國）的石油消費就已經下降了三分之一。即使有人談論重新開放經濟，但這很可能會像歐洲一樣逐漸發生，而且至少要等幾個月后，需求才能以任何有意義的方式開始恢復。

同時，石油庫存正在上升。據報道，本周政府正在就9家石油公司戰略石油儲備的租賃空間進行談判，這些石油公司無處存放其未售出和暫時無法出售的原油。

在這種情況下，歐佩克+減產聲明對價格的影響減弱了也就不足為奇了，大多數貿易商似乎認為這還不夠，即使非歐佩克+生產國實施了額外的減產。 2000萬桶/日的數據是總減產量的數字，但本季度需求下降約為3000萬桶/日。

郝芬 譯自 今日油價

原文如下：

Russia And Saudi Arabia Consider Even Deeper Oil Output Cuts

Russia and Saudi Arabia may be ready to enact deeper oil production cuts to stabilize prices, the energy ministers of the two countries said in a joint statement.

The two will “continue to closely monitor the oil market and are prepared to take further measures jointly with OPEC+ and other producers if these are deemed necessary,” the statement said as quoted by Bloomberg.

Last week, OPEC+ agreed to remove 9.7 million bpd of oil from the market, with the cuts beginning next month and remaining in effect until the end of June, after which the group will start to ramp up production gradually.

From 9.7 million bpd in May to June, the cuts will decline to 7.7 million bpd for the period July to December 2020, and then further to 5.8 million bpd until the end of April 2022.

However, demand has continued to fall sharply because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Oil consumption in the United States alone—the world’s largest consumer of oil—has dived by a third, Reuters’ John Kemp wrote in his weekly column. Even though there is talk about reopening the economy, this will most likely happen gradually, as in Europe, and it will be at least a few months until demand begins to recover in any meaningful way.

Meanwhile, oil inventories are on the rise. The federal U.S. government was this week reported to be negotiating leasing space in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to nine oil companies that have nowhere else to store their unsold and temporarily unsellable crude.

In this context, it is hardly a surprise that the effect the OPEC+ production cut announcement had on prices was muted, with most traders appearing to believe it was not deep enough, even with the additional cuts to be implemented by non-OPEC+ producers. The 20 million bpd figure is the one being thrown around as the size of the total reductions, and yet demand decline this quarter is seen at some 30 million bpd.