据今日油价9月27日报道，艾伯塔省政府将允许产油国在11月和12月分别抽取380万桶和381万桶原油。这一数字高于10月份的379万桶/日和今年1月份的356万桶/日，当时限购政策已经生效。

去年12月，首次宣布减产，是因为加拿大油价暴跌，与西德克萨斯中质原油相比，一度超过每桶50美元。

尽管受到一些业内人士的反对，但减产确实奏效，加拿大原油迅速反弹。目前，加拿大西部精选原油以每桶约12美元的折扣价与WTI进行交易。

即便如此，困扰阿尔伯塔省石油工业多年的问题仍未得到解决。由于反对者在法庭上挑战新项目，输油管道的产能继续紧张。上个月，加拿大联邦政府宣布恢复跨山输油管道扩建工程，这给加拿大石油带来了一些好消息。Ottawa表示，该管道应于2022年投入使用，日产量为59万桶。

从2020年1月开始，国际海事组织将实施新的、更严格的硫排放规则。这意味着，加拿大重质原油的平均含硫量为3.5%，将不再作为运输燃料，取而代之的是更轻、更甜的等级，如西德克萨斯中质原油，其平均含硫量约为0.5%，与国际海事组织新的最高允许数量相同。

王佳晶 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

Canadian Oil Prices Under Pressure As Alberta Eases Production Cuts

Alberta’s government will allow oil producers to pump 3.8 million bpd of crude in November and 3.81 million bpd in December, Reuters reports. That’s up from 3.79 million bpd in October and 3.56 million bpd in January this year, when the curtailments entered into effect.

First announced, the production cuts came in response to a slump in Canadian oil prices that at one point exceeded $50 per barrel compared to West Texas Intermediate.

Although opposed by some in the industry, the cuts did their job and Canadian crude rebounded quickly. Currently, Western Canadian Select trades at a discount of about $12 per barrel to WTI.

Even so, the problems that have plagued Alberta’s oil industry for years have not been solved.?Some good news for Canadian oil came last month, when the federal government announced the resumption of work on the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion. Ottawa said the pipeline should be in service in 2022 at a daily capacity of 590,000 barrels.

Beginning in January 2020, the International Maritime Organization will enforce new, stricter, sulphur emission rules. This means Canada’s heavy crude, with an average sulphur content of 3.5 percent, would fall out of favour as a shipping fuel to the benefit of lighter, sweeter grades such as West Texas Intermediate, whose average sulphur content is about 0.5 percent, the same as IMO’s new maximum allowable amount.