據美國鉆井網站2023年5月12日報道，惠譽解決方案旗下的研究公司BMI日前在發給美國鉆井網站的一份新報告中披露了其截至2027年的最新布倫特原油價格預測。  

根據這份新報告，BMI預計今年布倫特原油平均價格為每桶85美元，2024年和2025年為每桶83美元，2026年和2027年為每桶80美元。彭博共識預測，今年布倫特原油價格平均每桶86美元，2024年平均每桶87美元，2025年平均每桶85美元，2026年平均每桶79美元，2027年平均每桶71美元。

在4月3日發給美國鉆井網站的一份報告中，惠譽解決方案預測今年布倫特原油價格平均為每桶85美元，2024年和2025年平均為每桶83美元，2026年和2027年平均為每桶80美元。彭博共識在那份報告中認為，今年布倫特原油價格平均每桶為87美元，2024年平均為每桶88美元，2025年平均每桶為82美元，2026年平均為每桶80美元，2027年平均為每桶75美元?；葑u解決方案在其今年4月份的報告中強調，此前曾預計今年布倫特原油的平均價格為每桶90美元。

BMI分析師在最新報告中表示：“本月我們維持布倫特原油價格預測不變，今年平均每桶85美元，反映出相對于當前現貨價格水平(每桶76美元)和今年迄今為止的平均價格表現(每桶82美元)的看漲前景?！?/p>

“市場情緒目前極其脆弱，投資者對看漲市場的發展普遍充耳不聞。我們預計，受季節性需求強勁、歐佩克+減產和原油庫存減少的刺激，油價將在第二和第三季度回升。”

分析師警告稱：“然而，全球經濟增長放緩以及美國和歐盟預期的經濟衰退將對油價下行壓力造成影響。” 

賣空者重獲控制權

BMI分析師在最近發布的報告中指出，賣空者已經重新控制市場，“導致原油價格比4月份的峰值下跌了11%”。  

分析師在報告中稱，“在同一時期，布倫特原油資產管理機構持有的多頭倉位減少了25%，而空頭倉位飆升了129%”。

分析師們補充說：“面對4月2日宣布并于5月1日生效的歐佩克+每日額外減產116萬桶原油產量，伊拉克從3月25日開始中斷了每天45萬桶原油的出口，以及5月初加拿大因野火導致每天超過10萬桶的原油產量損失，市場倉位發生了波動?！?/p>

BMI分析師繼續說：“總的來說，這相當于全球近2%的原油供應停產，但市場的反應相對平靜?！?/p>

分析師在報告中指出，盡管供應方面的發展本應支持布倫特原油價格，但推動價格走勢的似乎是更大范圍的宏觀經濟放緩。

分析師們指出：“今年的經濟前景充滿挑戰，我們的分析師預測今年全球實際GDP同比增長率僅為2.0%，低于2022年的3.1%和2021年的6.0%。”

分析師們補充說：“成熟市場的下滑幅度最大，今年成熟市場的增長率將放緩至0.9%，這反映出美國經濟的輕度衰退和歐元區增長的急劇減速?！?/p>

分析師們接著表示：“今年以來，這兩個市場的高頻數據普遍出人意料地上行，而銀行業的壓力已經消退，對整體經濟健康影響不大。”

EIA，渣打銀行，美國銀行全球研究的預測

在5月9日發布的最新短期能源展望(STEO)報告中，美國能源信息署(EIA)下調了今年和明年布倫特原油現貨價格的平均預期。

最新的STEO報告顯示，EIA目前預計今年布倫特原油現貨價格將平均為每桶78.65美元，2024年為每桶74.47美元。EIA在4月份發布的上一份STEO報告中預測，今年布倫特原油現貨價格將平均為每桶85.01美元，2024年為每桶81.21美元。

渣打銀行在同一天發表的另一份報告中透露，該行目前預計今年布倫特原油價格將平均每桶91美元，明年平均每桶98美元，2025年平均每桶109美元。渣打銀行在1月份發給美國鉆井網站的另一份報告中也做出了同樣的布倫特原油價格預測。

在本周發給美國鉆井網站的另一份報告中，美國銀行全球研究透露，它已下調了對今年布倫特原油平均價格的預期。

美國銀行全球研究在報告中表示：“由于負面的宏觀趨勢將放大未來的需求疲軟，我們將今年布倫特原油平均價格預測下調至每桶80美元。”

美國銀行全球研究在報告中補充說：“即便如此，我們仍將2024年布倫特原油價格預測維持在每桶90美元，因為我們相信經合組織的需求最終會改善，而歐佩克+可能會繼續積極主動地管理供應?！?/p>

到目前為止，今年布倫特原油的最高收盤價為1月23日的每桶88.19美元。到目前為止，今年布倫特原油的最低收盤價是5月3日的每桶72.33美元。在撰寫本文時，布倫特原油價格為每桶74.70美元。

李峻 編譯自 油價網

原文如下：

BMI Reveals Latest Brent Oil Price Forecasts

BMI, a Fitch Solutions company, has revealed its latest Brent oil price forecasts through to 2027 in a new report sent to Rigzone.

According to the report, BMI sees the Brent price averaging $85 per barrel in 2023, $83 per barrel in both 2024 and 2025, and $80 per barrel in both 2026 and 2027. The Bloomberg Consensus, which was also published in the report and which BMI is a contributor to, sees the Brent price averaging $86 per barrel this year, $87 per barrel in 2024, $85 per barrel in 2025, $79 per barrel in 2026, and $71 per barrel in 2027.

In a report sent to Rigzone on April 3, Fitch Solutions projected that Brent would average $85 per barrel this year, $83 per barrel in both 2024 and 2025, and $80 per barrel in both 2026 and 2027. The Bloomberg Consensus in that report saw Brent averaging $87 per barrel this year, $88 per barrel in 2024, $82 per barrel in 2025, $80 per barrel in 2026, and $75 per barrel in 2027. Fitch Solutions previously expected Brent to average $90 per barrel in 2023, its April report highlighted.

“This month we have left our Brent crude price forecast unchanged, averaging $85 per barrel for 2023, reflecting a bullish outlook relative to both current spot price levels ($76 per barrel) and the average price performance in the year to date ($82 per barrel),” BMI analysts stated in the latest report.

“Sentiment is currently extremely fragile and investors have become generally deaf to bullish market developments. We expect prices to recover over the second and third quarters, spurred by seasonally stronger demand, production cutbacks by OPEC+ and crude inventory draws,” the analysts added in the report.

“However, slowing global economic growth and expected recessions in the U.S. and EU will weigh to the downside,” the analysts warned.

Short Sellers Regain Control

BMI analysts noted in the recently released report that short sellers have regained control of the market, “driving an 11 percent decline in prices versus their April peak”.

“Over that same period, the number of long positions held by managed money in Brent has dropped by 25 percent, while the number of shorts has soared by 129 percent,” the analysts said in the report.

“The swing in positioning has occurred in the face of an additional 1.16 million barrel per day cut by OPEC+, announced on April 2 and enacted on May 1, a 450,000 barrel per day export outage in Iraq, which began on March 25 and has yet to resume, and over 100,000 barrels per day of oil production losses in Canada, stemming from wildfires early this month,” the analysts added.

“In total, this equates to nearly two percent of global supply being brought offline and yet the response from the market has been relatively muted,” the BMI analysts continued.

While supply side developments should have been supportive of Brent, it is the broader slowing macro backdrop that appears to be driving price action, the analysts noted in the report.

“The economic outlook this year is challenging, with our analysts predicting global real GDP growth of just 2.0 percent year on year, down from 3.1 percent in 2022 and 6.0 percent in 2021,” the analysts noted.

“The declines are being led by developed markets, which are set to see growth slow to just 0.9 percent in 2023, reflecting a shallow recession in the U.S. and a sharp deceleration of growth in the eurozone,” they added.

“High frequency data in both markets has generally surprised to the upside in the YTD, while banking sector stresses have faded, with little impact on broader economic health,” the analysts went on to state.

EIA, Standard Chartered, BofA Global Research

In its latest short term energy outlook (STEO), which was released on May 9, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) cut its Brent spot price average forecasts for this year and next year.

The EIA now sees the Brent spot price averaging $78.65 per barrel in 2023 and $74.47 per barrel in 2024, the latest STEO shows. In its previous STEO, which was published in April, the EIA projected that the Brent spot price would average $85.01 per barrel in 2023 and $81.21 per barrel in 2024.

In another report published on the same day, Standard Chartered revealed that it currently sees the Brent price averaging $91 per barrel this year, $98 per barrel next year, and $109 per barrel in 2025. The company made the same Brent price projections in a separate report sent to Rigzone back in January.

In another report sent to Rigzone this week, BofA Global Research revealed that it had reduced its average Brent forecast for this year.

“With negative macro trends poised to amplify demand weakness ahead, we cut our average Brent crude oil price forecast to $80 per barrel in 2023,” BofA Global Research stated in the report.

“Even then, we leave our 2024 Brent crude oil forecast at $90 per barrel because we believe OECD demand will eventually improve while OPEC+ will likely keep proactively and pre-emptively managing supply,” the company added in the report.

Brent’s highest 2023 close, so far, was seen on January 23 at $88.19 per barrel. Its lowest 2023 close, so far, was seen on May 3 at $72.33 per barrel. At the time of writing, the Brent price is trading at $74.70 per barrel.