???? 據世界石油2月2日消息稱，在市場實物貨物的主要交易窗口期間，殼牌搶購了10多年來數量最大的北海石油，這有跡象表明供應急劇收緊。

????這家歐洲最大的石油公司周一在30分鐘的時間內購買了5批原油，在此期間，交易員提出買賣原油，以確定公布的基準原油價格。據監測該窗口的貿易商稱，該公司又進行了七次競價，但都沒有找到賣家。

????甚至在殼牌采取行動之前，石油市場就已經走強。價格一直處于一種被稱為現貨溢價的陡峭模式，這實際上意味著交易員愿意支付高額溢價以獲得即時供應。周二，受沙特阿拉伯在2月和3月大幅減產的推動，布倫特原油期貨飆升至每桶逾57美元的11個月新高。

????殼牌公司是世界上最大的石油貿易商，過去曾在北海采取大膽舉措，指出它需要這些石油來滿足其龐大的全球煉油系統和亞洲客戶的需求。

????根據彭博匯編的數據，殼牌購買了布倫特原油、奧賽伯格原油、Forties原油和兩件Ekofisk原油，這是至少自2008年末以來單家公司最大的一次采購。

????此次收購正值BFOET出貨量下滑之際。根據彭博社看到的裝運計劃，這5個等級的原油在3月份的日產量將降至77.4萬桶的六個月低點。

????最近幾天，與北海市場相關的關鍵金融工具大幅飆升。

????曹海斌 摘譯自 世界石油

????原文如下：

????Shell’s North Sea crude buys indicate sharply tightening supply

????Royal Dutch Shell snapped up the largest amount of North Sea oil in over a decade during the market’s main trading window for physical cargoes, underpinning signs of sharply tightening supplies.

????Europe’s biggest oil company purchased five cargoes on Monday during a 30-minute period during which traders offer to buy and sell cargoes to determine benchmark crude prices published. It made a further seven bids that didn’t find sellers, according to a trader monitoring the window.

????Even before Shell’s move, the oil market had been strengthening. Prices have been trading in a steep pattern known as backwardation -- effectively meaning traders are willing to pay hefty premiums to get hold of immediate supplies. On Tuesday, Brent futures soared to a fresh 11-month high of more than $57 a barrel, buoyed by Saudi Arabia making deep unilateral cuts to its oil production in February and March.

????Shell, the world’s largest physical oil trader, has made bold moves in the North Sea in the past, pointing out that it needs the barrels for its own giant global refining system and to satisfy demand from customers in Asia.

????Shell bought Brent, Oseberg, Forties and two Ekofisk cargoes, the largest purchases by a single company since at least late 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg since then.

????The purchases come at a time when BFOET shipments are set to drop. Combined flows of the five grades will fall to a six-month low of 774,000 barrels a day in March, according to loading plans seen by Bloomberg.

????Key financial instruments tied to the North Sea market have surged in recent days.