據今日油價5月18日報道，因需求復蘇及產油國加速減產的跡象，美國基準原油價格周一較早時飆升11%，至每桶逾32美元的兩個月高點，這使得重復上個月在到期前一天WTI原油價格下跌的可能性越來越小。

美國東部時間周一上午10點，周二到期的WTI 6月原油合約價格為32.86美元，當日上漲11.72%，達到3月第二周以來的最高水平。當時，在沙特阿拉伯為爭奪市場份額而向市場大量供應石油之后，油價開始下滑，隨著各國開始進入封鎖狀態以遏制疫情的蔓延，需求開始崩潰。

周一布倫特原油價格也上漲7.60％，至34.93美元，由于歐佩克+和北美的生產商表示，鑒于世界各地的低油價，高庫存和低油需求，減產加速和/或限制產量。

然而，石油需求復蘇的跡象在過去一周開始顯現。上周，美國能源情報署(Energy Information Administration即EIA)公布，截至5月8日當周，美國原油庫存減少70萬桶，為16周來首次商業庫存下降。EIA報告稱，汽油庫存減少350萬桶，此前一周減少320萬桶，這點燃了需求復蘇的希望。汽油日均產量為750萬桶，而一周前為670萬桶。

郝芬 譯自 今日油價

原文如下：

Oil Jumps 11% On Signs Of Demand Recovery

U.S. benchmark oil prices surged by 11 percent early on Monday to a two-month high of over $32 a barrel amid signs of demand recovery and accelerated production cuts from all oil producers, making a repeat of last month’s negative WTI Crude prices a day before expiry increasingly unlikely.

At 10:00 a.m. EDT on Monday, the WTI Crude June contract expiring on Tuesday was trading at $32.86, up by 11.72 percent on the day, to the highest level since the second week of March. Back then, oil prices had started to slide after Saudi Arabia flooded the market with oil in a price war for market share and demand started crumbling as countries began going into lockdown to curb the spreading of the coronavirus.

Brent Crude prices were also surging on Monday, by 7.60 percent at $34.93, as producers from OPEC+ and North America signaled accelerated production cuts and/or curtailments in view of the low oil prices, high inventories, and still low oil demand around the world.

However, evidence of recovering oil demand began to emerge over the past week. Last week, the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory decline of 700,000 barrels for the week to May 8—the first drop in commercial inventories in 16 weeks. In gasoline, the EIA reported an inventory draw of 3.5 million barrels, after a draw of 3.2 million for the previous week, which fueled hopes for demand recovery. Gasoline production averaged 7.5 million bpd, versus 6.7 million bpd a week earlier.