据今日油价7月17日报道，由于担心需求增长放缓，OPEC目前正在限制石油产量，以防止石油价格在供应过剩的市场上暴跌。但OPEC国家的国有石油公司们(NOCs)正着眼长远，力争在石油交易这块蛋糕上分得大份额。

OPEC最大产油国包括沙特阿拉伯、伊拉克和阿拉伯联合酋长国(UAE)的国有石油公司，计划大力发展各自的石油贸易业务，从它们拥有的巨大商业和可销售的石油资源中寻找额外的利润来源。中东产油国的国家石油公司已经在与维托尔(Vitol)、托克(Trafigura)、嘉能可(Glencore)、摩科瑞(Mercuria)和贡沃尔(Gunvor)等最大的独立石油交易商展开竞争。

在这场竞争中，国有石油公司相对于独立的石油交易商有一个巨大的优势，那就是国有石油公司拥有自己的石油。

根据标普全球分析，以石油产量计算，全球25家最大的石油公司中，国有企业占76%的石油产量。

如今， OPEC的石油公司将在全球各地扩大和开设贸易办事处，并寻求大幅提升其石油贸易业务和交易量，从而增强在石油贸易领域的竞争。

邹勤 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

OPEC’s Oil Giants Give Trading Houses A Run For Their Money

OPEC is currently restricting production to keep oil prices from tumbling in an oversupplied market fearful of faltering demand growth. But the national oil companies (NOCs) of the cartel’s largest producers are thinking long term and vying for a large slice of the oil trading pie.

The state-held oil firms of OPEC’s largest producers—Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—plan to significantly boost their respective oil trading businesses in search of additional lucrative sources of income from the huge commercial and marketable oil resources they own. The NOCs in the Middle Eastern producers are already competing with the largest independent oil traders of the likes of Vitol, Trafigura, Glencore, Mercuria, and Gunvor.

In this competition, the NOCs have one huge advantage over independent oil traders, and that is the fact that NOCs own their oil.

According to an S&P Global Platts analysis, state-controlled firms account for 76 percent of the oil production of the world’s 25 biggest oil companies in terms of oil output.

Now OPEC’s oil firms are set to increase competition in the oil trade by expanding and opening trading offices around the world and looking to significantly boost their oil trading businesses and volumes.