Giá dầu thô vẫn ổn định do không có tin nào Ä‘áng chú ý

Giá dầu thô phiên châu Á sáng nay vẫn ổn định quanh mức 104 USD/thùng do thị trường vẫn chÆ°a có thêm thông tin nào Ä‘áng chú ý gây giảm hay tăng đối vá»›i giá dầu.

Vào lúc 8h20 sáng nay (giờ Việt Nam) Ä‘ang đứng ở mức 104,73 USD/thùng, tăng nhẹ so vá»›i Ä‘óng cá»­a cuối phiên Mỹ tối qua ở mức 104,41 USD/thùng.

CÅ©ng Ä‘óng cá»­a phiên giao dịch hôm qua, giá dầu thô Brent giao kỳ hạn tháng 04 tăng 2,88 USD (2,6%) lên mức 115,94 USD/thùng.

Theo báo cáo từ Bá»™ năng lượng Mỹ, dá»± trữ dầu thô của nÆ°á»›c này tăng 2,52 triệu thùng lên mức 348,9 triệu thùng trong tuần qua, trong khi dá»± báo của các chuyên gia do Bloomberg News tăng chỉ 1 triệu thùng. Tuy nhiên thông tin này cÅ©ng không tác Ä‘á»™ng xấu đến tâm lý nhà đầu tÆ° bởi ngay sau Ä‘ó họ nhận được tin về trữ lượng xăng và nhiên liệu chÆ°ng cất giảm Ä‘áng kể.

Trong Ä‘ó trữ lượng xăng giảm 5,49 triệu thùng xuống mức 229,2 triệu thùng, Ä‘ây cÅ©ng là mức giảm lá»›n nhất kể từ tháng 09/2008, trong khi dá»± báo giảm 1,5 triệu thùng. Ngoài ra, trữ lượng dầu chÆ°ng cất giảm 3,98 triệu thùng xuống mức 155,2 triệu thùng và cÅ©ng là mức thấp nhất kể từ tháng 06.

CÅ©ng theo má»™t thông tin bên lề về đường ống dẫn dầu từ Thổ NhÄ© Kỳ đến Iraq Ä‘ã bị hÆ° hỏng do bị nổ, dẫn đến giảm ¼ lượng xuất khẩu khoảng 590.000 thùng/ngày, Emad al-Baqer má»™t quan chức của North Oil Co cho biết.

Oil Trades Below $105 in New York as Supplies Surge at Cushing

March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Oil traded below $105 a barrel in New York after stockpiles rose to the highest level since 2004 at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark grade.

Futures fell 0.6 percent yesterday after the Energy Information Administration said Cushing supplies increased by 1.69 million barrels to 40.3 million last week, the highest since it began gathering data at the hub. U.S. crude inventories climbed more than forecast by analysts in a Bloomberg News survey. Brent in London rose as forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi carried out strikes on oil facilities.

“Perceptions of prolonged trouble in Libya drove the rally in Brent,” Mark Pervan, head of commodity research at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in Melbourne, said in an e- mailed note today. “On the flipside, U.S. WTI crude declined after the EIA showed crude inventories rose 2.5 million barrels last week against expectations of a 1 million barrel rise. Even more bearish was Cushing crude stocks.”

Crude for April delivery traded at $104.39 a barrel, up 1 cent, in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 10:44 a.m. Sydney time. Yesterday, it dropped 64 cents to $104.38, declining for the second day. Prices are 27 percent higher from a year ago.

Brent crude for April settlement increased $2.88, or 2.6 percent, to end the session at $115.94 a barrel on the London- based ICE Futures Europe exchange yesterday.

U.S. Inventories

The European benchmark traded at an $11.56 a barrel premium over New York. Brent exceeded WTI by a record $19.54 on Feb. 21 as Cushing supplies advanced and unrest spread in the Middle East and North Africa. The gap averaged 76 cents last year.

U.S. crude-oil stockpiles rose 2.52 million barrels to 348.9 million, the Energy Department report showed. A 1 million- barrel increase was projected, according to the median of 15 analyst responses in a Bloomberg News survey.

Gasoline inventories fell by 5.49 million barrels to 229.2 million, the biggest decline since September 2008, according to the department. Stockpiles were forecast to drop 1.5 million barrels. Supplies of distillate fuel, a category that includes heating oil and diesel, fell 3.98 million barrels to 155.2 million, the lowest level since June.

Oil rose to a record $147.27 a barrel on July 11, 2008, before plunging 78 percent in the next five months to a low of $32.40 as the financial crisis unfolded.

Libyan Unrest

Unrest in Libya has also inflated the cost of refined oil products. Gasoline for April delivery advanced 8.05 cents, or 2.7 percent, to $3.0272 a gallon yesterday.

The violence in Africa’s third-largest crude producer after Nigeria and Angola has cut output by as much as 1 million barrels a day, according to the International Energy Agency. The North African country pumped 1.39 million barrels a day in February, down from 1.59 million the previous month, according to Bloomberg News estimates.

Saudi Arabia is capable of providing additional oil output if needed to counter supply disruptions caused by the unrest in the region, James Smith, U.S. ambassador to the kingdom, said in an interview on InBusiness with Margaret Brennan.

The kingdom has increased oil production by 1 million barrels a day and has the capacity to pump an additional 3.5 million, Smith said

Demonstrations have toppled leaders in Tunisia and Egypt, and protests have erupted in energy-exporting countries including Iran, Yemen and Oman. In Saudi Arabia, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries biggest producer, websites have called for a nationwide “Day of Rage” on March 11 and March 20, according to Human Rights Watch.

OPEC Meeting

Oil in New York slid yesterday as speculation increased that OPEC will consider boosting output to compensate for disruptions in Libya. There’s no need for an emergency meeting because there is no shortage of supplies, Youcef Yousfi, Algeria’s minister of energy and mines, said at CERAWeek, an IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates conference in Houston.

Saudi Arabian authorities released 25 people arrested during protests earlier this month in the oil-rich Eastern Province, home to the country’s minority Shiite Muslims, Ibrahim Al-Mugaiteeb, president of the country’s Human Rights First Society, said yesterday.

A pipeline carrying oil to Turkey from Iraq has been damaged by an explosion, according to an official, knocking out as much as a quarter of crude exports.

The explosion was an act of sabotage and cut shipments by up to 590,000 barrels a day, Emad al-Baqer, North Oil Co. head of production, said in an interview from Kirkuk.