据路透社2023年5月12日报道，美国能源部长对国会议员表示，美国能源部可能在6月完成国会授权的售油计划后，开始为战略石油储备(SPR)回购原油。
他在美国众议院听证会上对议员们表示：“国会授权的2600万桶原油销售计划将在6月前完成，届时我们将按下开关，然后寻求为SPR回购原油。 ”
美国去年从SPR中出售了1.8亿桶原油，这是美国有史以来规模最大的一次SPR原油出售， 加上去年的其他销售，美国战略石油储备水平已降至约3.72亿桶，为1983年以来的最低水平。
格兰霍姆此前曾表示，在对位于得克萨斯州和路易斯安那州海岸的四个战略石油储备基地中的两个进行维护后，美国能源部可能会在今年第四季度开始为SPR回购原油。
美国曾表示，将在油价持续处于或低于每桶67美元至72美元时回购原油。美国原油价格周四下跌逾2%，报收于每桶70.87美元。
能源咨询公司拉皮丹能源集团能源政策分析师Bob McNally表示，格兰霍姆的此番言论“反映出一场激烈的信息传递活动，可能意在安抚共和党人对战略石油储备大量提取的愤怒”。 能源部长的评论也可能是为了劝阻欧佩克+组织不要再次削减供应。
欧佩克+上一次减产是在4月份，当时的减产幅度令人意外，约为115万桶/日，美国称欧佩克+这一决定是不可取的。
李峻 编译自 路透社
原文如下：
US Could Start Buying Oil for Reserve After June Sale, Energy Secretary Says
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told lawmakers on Thursday her department could start repurchasing oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) after completing a congressionally mandated sale next month.
"That congressionally mandated sale of 26 million barrels will be completed by June, and it's at that point where we will flip the switch and then seek to purchase," Granholm told lawmakers in a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Administration last year conducted the largest ever sale from the SPR of 180 million barrels. That and other sales last year pushed the level of the reserve to about 372 million barrels, the lowest since 1983.
Granholm previously said the Energy Department could start buying back in the fourth quarter after maintenance on two of the reserve's four sites on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana.
The Administration has said it will buy oil when prices are consistently at or below $67 to $72 per barrel. U.S. crude prices fell more than 2% on Thursday to settle at $70.87 a barrel.
Granholm's comments "reflect an intense messaging campaign likely intended to mollify Republicans angry about the big SPR draws," said Bob McNally an energy policy analyst at Rapidan Energy. Granholm's comments also likely seek to dissuade OPEC+, an oil production group including Saudi Arabia and the largger producer, from cutting supply again, he said.
OPEC+ last cut output in April, a surprise move of about 1.15 million barrels per day, that the United States called inadvisable.
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