加拿大艾伯塔省原油减产有望提前结束

据今日油价11月21日报道，艾伯塔省总理詹森肯尼(Jason Kenney)在接受路透社采访时表示，艾伯塔省的原油减产预计将持续到2020年底，可能会提前一个月结束。

肯尼在休斯敦会见雪佛龙、菲利普斯66和石油管道运营商的石油业高管，他称，希望最迟在明年这个时候结束。

艾伯塔省上届政府于今年1月开始实行强制性生产上限，由于西加拿大挑选的折扣价在西德州区进行交易。折扣一度超过每桶50美元。

产量达到上限后，价格立即反弹，为艾伯塔省生产商提供了喘息的空间。但是，加拿大原油价格折扣的根本问题仍然是：管道容量不足。这导致以杰森·肯尼（Jason Kenney）为首的新政府宣布将生产上限延长至2020年底。

最初设定为32.5万桶/天，仅对大型生产商有效，今年以来已经放宽了两次上限。本月，艾伯塔省的石油公司可以生产380万桶/天的原油，而在12月甚至可以达到381万桶/天。但是，更高的产量要有一个条件：生产者必须承诺通过铁路将其运出省。

加拿大能源公司仍然认为，解决该国石油工业困境的长期解决方案是建造大型新管道，以增加市场准入，并有可能开拓几乎所有加拿大石油出口产品美国购买商以外的新出口市场。

郝芬 译自 今日油价

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Alberta Premier: Oil Cuts Could End Earlier

Alberta’s crude oil production cuts, scheduled to last until the end of 2020 could end a month earlier, Premier Jason Kenney said in an interview with Reuters.

“We hope it will end by this time next year at the latest,” Kenney said in Houston where he met with oil industry executives from Chevron, Phillips 66, and oil pipeline operators.

Alberta’s previous government introduced obligatory production caps effective in January this year because of the crippling discount Western Canadian Select was trading at to West Texas Intermediate. At align="justify">Prices immediately rebounded after the introduction of the caps, providing some breathing space for Alberta producers. However, the root problem of the price discount for Canadian crude remained: insufficient pipeline capacity. This led the new government headed by Jason Kenney to announce an extension of the production caps until the end of 2020.

Initially set at 325,000 bpd and align="justify">Canadian energy companies continue to believe that the long-term solution to the country’s oil industry’s woes is the construction of major new pipelines to increase market access, and potentially, to tap new export markets outside the buyer of nearly all Canadian oil exports, the United States.