據油價網2020年5月29日休斯頓報道，路透社周五（29日）對數十位石油分析師的月度調查結果顯示，盡管歐佩克+和北美紛紛減產，而需求也在緩慢增長，但由于兩大經濟體關系重新緊張，今年的平均油價預計將不會比目前的油價高很多。

被路透社調查的43位分析師認為，美國基準WTI原油今年的平均價格將為每桶32.78美元，大致相當于5月29日早盤的水準。

路透社調查的分析師預計，今年布蘭特原油均價將為每桶37.58美元。與4月調查相比，分析師已調高了他們對這兩種基準原油價格的預估，當時他們曾預計WTI原油均價將為每桶31.47美元，而布倫特原油均價將為每桶35.84美元。

今年迄今，布倫特原油均價為每桶42.37美元。

29日稍早，油價日內跌幅超過了2%，并有望錄得5周來首周下跌。然而，在經歷了石油需求和石油期貨的“黑色四月”后，5月份石油價格上漲了近40%，因此盡管出現了周跌幅，但價格仍有望創下自1999年3月以來的最佳月度表現。

對于今年的平均油價，分析師預計，歐佩克+協議內外的主要產油國將減產，未來幾個月支撐油價的需求將恢復。然而，接受路透社調查的分析師預計，基本面改善帶來的價格上漲可能會受到美國股市突然上漲的限制，這可能會損害后疫情時代的經濟復蘇和貿易。

本周早些時候，摩根士丹利表示，由于需求回升，布倫特原油價格預計將在今年年底前達到每桶40美元。需求回升的速度快于該行此前的預測。

李峻 編譯自 油價網

原文如下：

Oil Prices Are Unlikely To Break $40 This Year

Despite production cuts from OPEC+ and North America and slowly improving demand, oil prices are not expected to average much higher than current prices in 2020 because of renewedthe tensions, the monthly Reuters poll of dozens of oil analysts showed on Friday.

According to 43 analysts surveyed by Reuters, the U.S. benchmark WTI Crude is set to average $32.78 a barrel in 2020, which is roughly where the contract was trading early on Friday.

Brent Crude prices are expected to average $37.58 per barrel this year, the analysts in the Reuters poll predicted. Experts have lifted their forecasts for both benchmarks compared to the April poll, when WTI Crude was expected to average $31.47 a barrel and Brent Crude was seen averaging $35.84 per barrel.

So far this year, Brent Crude prices have averaged $42.37 a barrel.

Early on Friday, oil prices were down on the day more than 2 percent and on track for a first weekly loss in five weeks. However, after the ‘black April’ for oil demand and oil futures, this month the price of oil has rallied by nearly 40 percent, so despite being on course for a weekly loss, prices were on track to score the best monthly performance since March 1999.

For the average prices in 2020, analysts expect the cuts from major producers in and outside the OPEC+ pact and the recovering demand to support oil in the coming months. However, the analysts polled by Reuters expect that price gains from improving fundamentals could be capped by flare-ups in the U.S.-China relations, which could damage the post-coronavirus economic recovery and trade.

Earlier this week, Morgan Stanley said it expected Brent Crude to trade at $40 a barrel by the end of the year thanks to the recovery in demand, which has taken off faster than the bank had predicted.