據美國油價網2022年1月21日報道，路透社援引商品分析提供商Kpler公布的統計數據稱，最近幾周，美國原油出口大幅增長，原因是在全球需求穩定且富有彈性的情況下，美國引領全球原油供應增長。

Kpler美國首席石油分析師Matt Smith對路透社表示，去年12月，美國原油平均日出口量為320萬桶。 據Kpler稱，這是自2020年2月以來的最高單月原油出口量，2020年2月疫情導致全球石油需求下降。  

Smith對路透社表示，今年1月迄今，美國原油出口增加，原油日均出口量接近300萬桶。  

他說：“今年所有人都看到了非常強勁的需求增長數據，如果你看看全球原油供應增長的來源，你就會發現美國在這方面處于領先地位。”

國際能源署(IEA)本周早些時候表示，全球石油需求打破了一個月前的悲觀預期，經受住了奧密克戎毒株浪潮的沖擊，并將2021年和2022年的需求增長預期上調了20萬桶/天。  

IEA周三（1月19日）在其1月份石油市場報告(OMR)中表示，2021年第四季度全球石油日需求增加了110萬桶，達到9900萬桶，這與市場預期的奧密克戎浪潮對石油消費造成嚴重打擊的預期不符。 因此，IEA上調了全球石油需求預估，目前預計去年和今年的石油日需求將分別增長550萬桶和330萬桶。  

李峻 編譯自 美國油價網

原文如下：

U.S. Crude Exports Boom Amid Recovering Global Demand

U.S. crude oil exports have jumped in recent weeks as America leads supply growth amid steady and resilient global demand, according to commodity analytics provider Kpler, cited by Reuters.

In December, America’s crude oil exports averaged 3.2 million barrels per day (bpd), Matt Smith, a lead oil analyst for the Americas at Kpler, told Reuters. That, according to Kpler, was the highest crude export volume in a month since February 2020, just before the pandemic crippled global oil demand.

So far in January, U.S. crude oil exports have increased and are close to averaging 3 million bpd, Smith told Reuters.  

“Everyone is seeing really strong demand growth numbers for this year, and when you look at where supply growth is coming through from, the U.S. is a leader there,” he said.

Global oil demand defied gloomy expectations from a month ago to withstand the Omicron wave with much less disruption than expected, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said earlier this week, raising its demand growth estimates by 200,000 bpd for both 2021 and 2022.

Demand increased by 1.1 million bpd to 99 million bpd in the fourth quarter of 2021, defying expectations of a serious hit to consumption due to the Omicron wave, the IEA said in its Oil Market Report (OMR) for January on Wednesday. As a result, the IEA raised its global demand estimates, and now expects demand growth of 5.5 million bpd last year and 3.3 million bpd this year.