据CNN 9月1日纽约报道 今年春天，沙特阿拉伯向美国派遣了一大批油轮，用廉价原油淹没美国石油制造商。而如今再也不复之前盛况，自里根时代以来，沙特的石油产量是最少的。
据大宗商品研究公司ClipperData估计，8月份，美国每天从沙特进口的原油仅为26.4万桶。这比2019年的平均水平下降了近50%。
如果得到政府官方统计数据的证实，这将是自1985年以来沙特对美国石油出口的最低水平。
ClipperData大宗商品研究主管马特?史密斯(Matt Smith)在一封电子邮件中向CNN Business表示:“流向美国的沙特原油基本上已经枯竭。”
沙特阿拉伯的转变——从故意向美国大量供应过剩原油到抑制原油产量——凸显了沙特在新冠疫情流行期间为重振低迷的能源市场所做的巨大努力。
朱寅 摘译自 CNN
原文如下：
Saudi oil shipments to America plunge to 35-year low
This spring Saudi Arabia sent an armada of tankers to America to drown US oil makers with cheap crude. Now, the kingdom has reversed course, steering the fewest barrels here since the Reagan era.
The United States imported just 264,000 barrels per day of Saudi crude during August, according to estimates from ClipperData, a commodity research firm. That's down nearly 50% from 2019's average.
If confirmed by official government statistics, that would mark the lowest amount of Saudi oil exports to the United States since 1985.
"Saudi crude flows bound for the US have basically dried up," Matt Smith, director of commodity research at ClipperData, told CNN Business in an email.
The course-reversal by Saudi Arabia -- from intentionally flooding the United States with excess crude to holding back barrels -- underscores the kingdom's dramatic efforts to revive depressed energy markets during the pandemic.