???? 據4月7日今日油價報道，上周，作為美國新中東戰略的主要成員，阿聯酋宣布了三項關鍵進展，重大經濟擴張計劃；將吸引更多石油貿易進入新合同的計劃等。

????阿聯酋副總統兼總理謝赫·穆罕默德·本·拉希德·阿勒馬克圖姆(Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum)宣布的第一個發展項目是“3000億迪拉姆行動”。該項目旨在，未來10年內將阿聯酋工業部門的貢獻從目前的1330億迪拉姆提高到3000億阿聯酋法郎810億迪拉姆。這一目標將在很大程度上，通過在此期間設立的1350家工業公司來實現，首先包括制造、建筑、電力、天然氣、采礦和采石部門。這些計劃的核心將是阿聯酋能源部門的輔助建設，而這些計劃又將屬于阿聯酋2021-2031年的循環經濟政策。這包括阿聯酋的旗艦石油和天然氣公司——阿布扎比石油公司(ADNOC)的原油產量總體目標增長，最遲在2030年從每天400萬桶增加到至少500萬桶。

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????自從阿聯酋與以色列簽署了自己的“關系正常化”協議以來，其旗艦石油生產商ADNOC目前在印度重要戰略石油儲備（SPR）的管理中發揮著關鍵作用，預計阿聯酋和印度將達成一系列新的石油協議。隨后，ADNOC首席執行官Sultan al-Jaber表示，阿聯酋的新投資，以及新的常規和非常規石油發現，將有助于提高Murban石油的產量。這與上周宣布的第二項關鍵開發項目相吻合，那就是將更多石油貿易納入新合同的計劃。具體來說，上周ADNOC與洲際交易所(ICE)合作，在阿布扎比新成立的交易所——ICE阿布扎比期貨平臺(IFAD)，推出了一份Murban期貨合約。

????輕質、低硫的Murban原油是ADNOC生產的四種原油之一，盡管在新冠肺炎爆發前，它占阿聯酋近400萬桶/天原油總產量的一半左右。根據ICE和ADNOC的數據，Murban期貨是繼迪拜商品交易所(Dubai Mercantile exchange)的阿曼原油期貨之后，在地區交易所交易的第二份實物交割期貨合約，而且在普氏（迪拜）和阿曼原油基準評估中，Murban也是可交割等級。ICE和ADNOC與BP、GS Caltex、Inpex、ENEOS、PTT、殼牌、道達爾和Vitol合作啟動IFAD, ICE還宣布與雪佛龍、托克和西方石油公司簽署協議，利用該合同為從美國出口到亞洲的原油定價。

????新IFAD交易所的Murban合約可以與上周宣布的三件事聯系在一起，即阿聯酋的富查伊拉酋長國將在未來10年大幅擴張。作為世界第三大石油儲備中心，富查伊拉酋長國將繼續受益于其在長期麻煩不斷的霍爾木茲海峽和波斯灣其他地區以外的高度優勢戰略地位。

????王佳晶 摘譯自 今日油價

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????UAE Presents Phenomenal Plan To Boost Its Position As Oil Hub

????Three key developments were announced last week by the UAE in line with its role? over the region: plans for a major economic expansion; plans to attract more oil trade into new contracts.

????The first of these developments - announced by UAE Vice President and Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai – is ‘Operation 300 Billion’. This is an initiative that intends to raise the contribution of the UAE’s industrial sector to AED300 billion (US$81 billion) from the current AED133 billion within the next 10 years. The objective will be achieved in large part through the creation of 13,500 industrial companies over that period, covering the manufacturing, construction, electricity, gas, mining and quarrying sectors in the first instance. At the centre of these plans, which in turn fall within the UAE’s Circular Economy Policy 2021-2031, will be an adjunct build-out of the UAE’s energy sector. This includes an overall target crude oil production increase for the UAE’s flagship oil and gas company – the Abu Dhabi Oil Company (ADNOC) – from around 4 million barrels per day (bpd) to at least 5 million bpd by 2030 at the latest.

????Since the UAE signed its own ‘relationship normalisation’ deal with Israel, its flagship oil producer, ADNOC, now plays a key role in the management of India’s vital strategic petroleum reserves (SPR) and a slew of new oil deals are expected between the UAE and India. Following on from this, ADNOC’s chief executive officer, Sultan al-Jaber, stated at the end of March that the new investments to be made by the UAE, along with new conventional and unconventional oil discoveries, will help boost the production of Murban. This dovetails into the second key development announced last week, which was the finalisation of plans to attract more oil trade into new contracts. Specifically, last week saw the launch by ADNOC of a dedicated Murban futures contract on a new Abu Dhabi-based exchange – the ICE Futures Abu Dhabi platform (IFAD) - in partnership with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).

????The light, sweet Murban crude oil grade is one of the four crudes produced by ADNOC, although it accounted for around half of the UAE’s total near-4 million bpd crude oil production before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to ICE and ADNOC, Murban futures is the second physically delivered futures contracts traded on a regional exchange after Dubai Mercantile Exchange’s Oman crude futures, and Murban is also a deliverable grade in the Platts benchmark Dubai and Oman crude assessments. ICE and ADNOC partnered with BP, GS Caltex, Inpex, ENEOS,?PTT, Shell, Total and Vitol to launch the IFAD, and ICE has also announced agreements with Chevron, Trafigura, and Occidental to explore using the contract to price crude exports from the U.S. to Asia.

????Even as it stands, Fujairah is the key hub from which the UAE’s Murban oil is exported, making its way there through the 360 kilometre Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline from the Habshan onshore field in Abu Dhabi and capable of transporting 1.8 million bpd. ADNOC is also currently developing underground oil storage caverns in Fujairah that can hold 42 million barrels, including Murban, with the project expected to be completed in 2022. According to recent statements from the Fujairah port development authorities, it may add a tenth berth shortly as part of plans to boost overall storage capacity across the site to 17 million cubic metres in the next three to four years.