據美國鉆井網站2023年4月13日報道，美國能源信息署(EIA)在4月11日發布的最新短期能源展望(STEO)報告中上調了其對2023年和2024年布倫特原油現貨平均價格的預測。

根據4月份的STEO報告，EIA現在預計今年布倫特原油現貨價格平均每桶為85.01美元，明年平均每桶為81.21美元。EIA此前在3月7日發布的STEO報告預計，2023年布倫特原油現貨價格平均為每桶82.95美元，2024年為每桶77.57美元。

EIA在最新的STEO報告中表示：“我們預測的2023年布倫特原油現貨價格平均為每桶85美元，比上個月的預測每桶上漲2美元。”

EIA補充稱：“價格預測上漲反映了2023年全球原油產量減少的預測，以及全球原油消費前景相對不變。”

EIA在最新的STEO報告中警告稱：“盡管我們對油價的預測更高，但最近銀行業出現的問題提高了經濟和石油需求增長低于我們預測的可能性，這有可能導致油價下跌。”

EIA在4月份的STEO報告中指出，預計未來一年全球石油市場將相對平衡。

EIA在4月份的STEO報告中表示：“全球原油庫存在2022年日增40萬桶，在2023年第一季度日增110萬桶，在2023年下半年庫存將基本保持不變。” 

“我們預計從2024年開始，全球原油庫存平均每天將增加50萬桶左右。這一預測假設歐佩克最近的減產在2024年初到期。鑒于我們對2023年下半年石油市場相對平衡的預測，我們預計2023年剩余時間的原油平均價格將為每桶86美元。”EIA繼續說道。

EIA在STEO報告中概述稱，價格下行壓力將在2024年第二季度出現，“我們預計屆時全球原油庫存將開始大幅增加”。

EIA表示：“然而，由于這些增加依賴于歐佩克增加原油產量，這一時期預測的不確定性來自原油產量低于我們的預測，這可能導致原油價格高于我們的預測。”

李峻 編譯自 美國鉆井網站

原文如下：

USA EIA Increases Brent Oil Price Forecasts|

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) increased its average Brent spot price forecast for both 2023 and 2024 in its latest short term energy outlook (STEO), which was released on April 11.

According to the April STEO, the EIA now sees the Brent spot price averaging $85.01 per barrel this year and $81.21 per barrel next year. The EIA’s previous STEO, which was released on March 7, projected that the Brent spot price would average $82.95 per barrel in 2023 and $77.57 per barrel in 2024. 

“The Brent crude oil spot price in our forecast averages $85 per barrel in 2023, up $2 per barrel from last month’s forecast,” the EIA stated in the latest STEO.

“The higher price forecast reflects a forecast for less global production in 2023 and a relatively unchanged outlook for global oil consumption,” the EIA added.

“Despite our higher price forecast, recent issues in the banking sector raise the potential that economic and oil demand growth will be lower than our forecast, which has the potential to result in lower oil prices,” the EIA warned in the STEO.

In its April STEO, the EIA noted that it expects global oil markets will be in relative balance over the coming year.

“Global oil inventories, which increased by 0.4 million barrels per day in 2022 and by 1.1 million barrels per day in 1Q23 will be mostly unchanged during the second half of 2023,” the EIA said in the STEO.

“We expect builds will average about 0.5 million barrels per day beginning in 2024. This forecast assumes the recent OPEC cuts expire at the beginning of 2024. Given our forecast of relatively balanced oil markets in 2H23, we expect prices will average $86 per barrel for the rest of 2023,” the EIA continued.

In the STEO, the EIA outlined that downward price pressures emerge in the second quarter of 2024, “when we expect global oil inventories will begin to build more significantly”.

“However, because these builds depend on OPEC increasing its crude oil production, uncertainty in the forecast for this period comes from less oil production than we forecast, which could result in higher prices than in our forecast,” the EIA stated.