壳牌计划租用超级油轮储存600万桶原油

据烃加工2020年3月11日伦敦报道，航运消息人士称，荷兰皇家壳牌公司时下正在讨论租用至少3艘超级油轮在海上储存大约600万桶原油。

消息人士称，壳牌公司已临时预定了这些被称为超大型油轮(vlcc)的超级油轮，用于至少3个月的原油储存选择。消息人士补充称，这些固定装置仍有待敲定。

壳牌公司发言人拒绝置评。

如果完全确定，这将是近期油价暴跌以后第一批用于原油浮式存储的油轮。

航运消息人士说，壳牌公司至少有一艘超级油轮可以选择在美国储存原油。

欧佩克和其他主要产油国结束减产协议以后，油价和更广泛的原油市场价格结构近几天出现了暴跌。

全球现货市场的原油供应过剩正迫使即期交割的原油价格低于远期期货成本，即所谓的“期货溢价结构”(contango structure)，这使得购买原油、将其储存在海上油轮上、然后以更高价格出售变得有利可图。

根据Refinitiv的统计数据，近期交割的布伦特原油期货价格在过去4年里比去年11月的合约有最大折扣。

李峻 编译自 烃加工

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Shell in talks to book tankers for crude floating storage

Royal Dutch Shell is in discussions to charter at least three supertankers to store around 6 million barrels of crude oil at sea, shipping sources said.

Shell has provisionally booked the vessels, known as very large crude carriers (VLCCs), for storage options for at least three months, the sources said, adding that the fixtures were still to be concluded.

A Shell spokeswoman declined to comment.

If fully fixed, these would be the first tankers to be used for floating storage after the recent fall in oil prices.

The shipping sources said at least>Oil prices and the broader crude market pricing structure collapsed in recent days after OPEC and other major producing nations ended an output cut deal.

A glut of crude oil in global spot markets is forcing the price of oil for immediate delivery below forward futures costs, known as a contango structure, making it potentially profitable to buy oil, store it offshore>Brent crude futures for nearby delivery are trading at their biggest discount to the November contract in over four years, according to Refinitiv data.