據(jù)美國(guó)彭博新聞社2022年8月12日?qǐng)?bào)道，美國(guó)路易斯安那州增壓站泄漏導(dǎo)致該地區(qū)兩條輸油管道中斷以后，位于墨西哥灣的6個(gè)油氣田被關(guān)閉。  

殼牌公司周四（8月11日）關(guān)閉了Mars和Amberjack輸油管道，這兩條輸油管道每天可從墨西哥灣向美國(guó)海岸輸送多達(dá)50萬(wàn)桶石油。這導(dǎo)致殼牌公司的Mars、Ursa和Olympus油田以及雪佛龍公司的Jack/St Malo、Tahiti和Big Foot油田關(guān)閉。 

殼牌公司發(fā)言人辛迪·巴布斯基在一封電子郵件中表示，由于增壓站泄漏問(wèn)題已得到控制，兩條輸油管道預(yù)計(jì)不日將恢復(fù)輸油作業(yè)。巴布斯基沒(méi)有提供這個(gè)6個(gè)油田重啟生產(chǎn)的最新情況。

此次美國(guó)墨西哥灣石油供應(yīng)中斷發(fā)生在全球能源供應(yīng)極其緊張之際。盡管美國(guó)政府動(dòng)用緊急石油儲(chǔ)備緩沖了美國(guó)原油庫(kù)存，但美國(guó)原油庫(kù)存仍低于5年平均水平。原油供應(yīng)可能進(jìn)一步收緊，國(guó)際能源署（International Energy Agency）預(yù)測(cè)，今年全球的石油需求將加速。

墨西哥灣石油供應(yīng)中斷推高了該地區(qū)含硫原油基準(zhǔn)瑪爾斯混合原油的價(jià)格。與此同時(shí)，據(jù)彭博新能源財(cái)經(jīng)新聞報(bào)道，墨西哥灣干氣產(chǎn)量下降了約2.4%，為8月2日以來(lái)最大降幅。在紐約商交所交易的9月份天然氣期貨價(jià)格上漲了8.4%，達(dá)到兩周來(lái)的高點(diǎn)。

李峻 編譯自 美國(guó)彭博新聞社

原文如下：

Oil Outages in Gulf of Mexico Straining Tight Market

Six oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico have been shut after a leak at a Louisiana booster station halted two pipelines in the region. 

Shell Plc on Thursday shut its Mars and Amberjack pipelines which together can move as much as 500,000 barrels a day of oil from the Gulf of Mexico to the coast. That resulted in the closure of Shell’s Mars, Ursa and Olympus fields, as well as Chevron Corp.’s Jack/St. Malo, Tahiti and Big Foot fields, the companies said.

Both pipelines are expected to resume service Friday as the leak has been contained, Shell spokesperson Cindy Babski said in an email. She didn’t provide an update on restarting production at the fields. 

The outage comes at a time when global energy supplies are exceedingly tight. While US crude inventories have been cushioned by the government’s tapping of emergency oil reserves, stocks nevertheless remain below the five-year average. Supplies could tighten further, with the International Energy Agency forecasting that oil demand will accelerate this year. 

The disruption of supplies in the Gulf of Mexico strengthened prices for Mars Blend crude, a regional sour crude benchmark. Meanwhile, Gulf of Mexico dry-gas production is down about 2.4%, the most since Aug. 2, according BloombergNEF. September gas futures traded in New York are up as much as 8.4% to a two-week high.