据原油新闻2020年10月15日休斯敦报道，由于出口市场需求疲软，截至10月9日当周，美国原油出口下降到了14个月以来的最低点，预计2021年美国原油出口将继续疲软。
根据美国能源信息署(EIA)公布的每周统计数据，在10月9日结束的那周里，美国平均原油日出口量为213.5万桶，这是自截至2019年8月2日那一周以来的最低水平，当时的原油平均日出口量只有186.5万桶。
航运市场需求的缺乏是显而易见的，这是因为来自美洲的原油油轮的运费一直在苦苦挣扎。
一位消息人士表示：“在过去三周里，船舶经纪人一直在说，(有)很多船在原地停留，但几乎很少有人问津。”
运费自5月底以来一直低迷，且在进入第4季度前15天里依然低迷，但由于新冠肺炎疫情大流行以及今年第二季度预定的浮式储存原油平仓，运费并未回升。
李峻 编译自 原油新闻
原文如下：
US crude exports hit 14-month-low amid weak export demand
US exports fell to a 14-month-low over the week ended Oct. 9, and are expected to remain weak into 2021, as sources note poor demand in the export market.
The US exported an average of 2.135 million b/d of crude over the weekend ended Lack of demand was evident in the shipping markets where dirty tankers rates out of the Americas have floundered.
"[There are] lots of boats hanging around with few takers was what ship brokers were saying [the] past three weeks now," Freight has been depressed since the end of May and remains so 15 days into Q4, when freight typically sees seasonal highs, but due to the pandemic and unwinding of floating storage barrels booked in Q2 2020, rates have not picked up.