據每日能源網站9月21日消息：根據美國石油協會(API)的數據，盡管勞拉颶風造成了破壞，而且疫情存在不確定性，但美國在8月仍是凈能源出口國。

API的《2020年8月月度統計報告》和《2020年第三季度工業展望》顯示，原油和成品油進口量下降5.3%，至每天750萬桶，出口量上升2.0%，至每天78萬桶。在出口中，成品油480萬桶/天，同比增長1.9%；原油300萬桶/天，8月平均每天增加10萬桶。

API首席經濟學家迪安·福曼表示：“盡管市場仍然脆弱，但八月我們在關鍵指標的重新平衡和正常化方面取得了實質性進展。” “雖然勞拉颶風造成了破壞，但美國仍恢復了凈出口國地位，這一點非常重要，因為它顯示了國際需求的彈性，以及國內煉油商在大范圍的經濟衰退中越來越多地轉向國內的低硫原油。”

隨著人們重返工作崗位，美國8月石油需求微升至1830萬桶/天，受汽車運輸燃料需求上升和卡車運輸活動增加帶動。柴油需求環比增長4.2%，汽油需求環比增長1.5%。航空燃油需求疲弱的主要原因是航空燃油需求較上年同期下降逾46%，因航空旅行需求不振。

美國8月原油和液態天然氣產量下降，因鉆井活動降至2001年11月以來的最低水平。石油總庫存增加0.2%，至14.6億桶，但原油庫存下降3.2%，至5.028億桶/天。

馮娟 摘譯自 每日能源

原文如下：

United States remains net exporter of energy in August despite challenges

Despite disruptions from Hurricane Laura and uncertainty related to the pandemic, the United States remained a net energy exporter in August, according to the American Petroleum Institute (API).

API’s August 2020 Monthly Statistical Report and Q3 2020 Industry Outlook said imports of crude oil and refined products decreased 5.3 percent to 7.5 mb/d and exports rose 2.0 percent to 7.8 mb/d. Among the exports, 4.8 mb/d was refined products, which increased by 1.9 percent m/m, while the remaining 3.0 mb/d was crude oil, up 0.1 mb/d m/m in August.

“Although the market remains fragile, we saw substantive progress in August towards the rebalancing and normalizing of key indicators,” API Chief Economist Dean Forman said. “The U.S. return to net exporter status despite disruptions from Hurricane Laura is significant in that it shows a combination of resilience in international demand coupled with domestic refiners increasingly turning to domestic sweet crude despite and in fact due to the pandemic-driven recession.”

As people returned to work, U.S. petroleum demand edged up to 18.3 mb/d in August, led by higher demand for motor transport fuels and increased trucking activity. There was a 4.2 percent monthly uptick in diesel demand, while gasoline demand rose by 1.5 percent m/m. The primary source of weakness was jet fuel demand, which was down more than 46 percent year-over-year due to depressed demand for air travel.

U.S. crude oil and natural gas liquids production went down in August as drilling activity fell to its lowest level since November 2001. Total U.S. petroleum inventories increased 0.2 percent in August to 1.46 billion barrels, but crude oil stocks fell 3.2 percent to 502.8 mb/d.