据查尔斯·戈里万、格兰特·史密斯和阿奇·亨特报道，全球最大的独立石油贸易商维托尔集团的首席执行官表示，受伊朗局势影响，西方国家的石油储备已消耗殆尽。他警告称，进入冬季后燃料市场可能仍将处于供应紧张状态。
Oil inventories in western countries have been exhausted as a result of the Iran war, the boss of the world’s largest independent oil trader said, warning that fuel markets are likely to remain tight going into winter.
“西方已没有可动用的石油储备了，”维托尔集团首席执行官拉塞尔·哈迪周二在伦敦举行的能源情报论坛上说道，“我们已用尽了所有可用的库存。”
“There aren’t any more inventories to drain in the West,” Russell Hardy, chief executive officer of Vitol Group, said at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London on Tuesday. “We drained the available inventory.”
上周五，七国集团及其伙伴国宣布将释放1亿桶紧急石油储备。此前特朗普政府向欧洲施压，要求其采取更多措施遏制柴油价格飙升。哈迪指出，此次储备释放的具体细节“尚未完全公开”。就在一天前，沙特阿美首席执行官也曾警告称，受物流难题制约，全球60亿桶石油储备中仅有不到10%能够实际投入使用。哈迪同时强调，未来数月内燃料市场紧张态势恐将持续。
The Group of Seven nations and its partners announced on Friday that they would release 100 million barrels of emergency oil reserves after the Trump administration piled pressure on Europe to do more to quell soaring diesel prices. Hardy said the precise details of that release were “not fully transparent.”Hardy’s comments come a day after the chief executive officer of Saudi Aramco warned that less than 10% of the world’s 6 billion-barrel oil stockpile is practically available because of various logistics challenges. Hardy also warned that a tight fuels market is likely to persist in the coming months.
“目前各类石油产品供应依然极度紧张，这种状况在冬季很可能还会延续一段时间。”
“Products are still in a very, very tight situation and that will probably roll forward for a little bit longer as we go through winter,” he said.