高中英语外刊阅读60篇（2022第十期）

受到新冠疫情冲击，全球石油需求量骤减。“石油市场正经历全球范围内突然的、 极端的历史性冲击。”BBC称，美国 5月份轻质原油期货WTI价格暴跌至负值，“我们 在港口的可用储油空间几乎卖光了。”世界最大独立石油存储公司 Royal Vopak的首 席财务官杰拉德·保利德斯对彭博社表示，据他所知全球其他地方的储油情况也是如 此。 本文节选自：The Wall Street Journal（2020.04.25） Behind Oil-Market Gyrations: Few Places Left to Store Unwanted Crude The world may have to get used to oil turning up in unusual places. An enormous glut of crude sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting collapse in demand has overwhelmed the global distribution system. Oil markets broke down this week as buyers vanished for lack of storage space. At one point, the squeeze was so intense, sellers with oil at a key U.S. delivery point in Cushing, Okla., were paying buyers to take the stuff off their hands. Global onshore storage facilities totaling 4.4 billion barrels are currently about 65% full, said An‐ toine Halff, chief analyst at Paris-based commodities-analysis company Kayrros. But he added that as of early April they were filling at a“monster rate”of 10 million barrels a day. Absent a market, the oil industry is staring at financial disaster. More than 70 debt-burdened U.S. oil producers are now at risk of bankruptcy, according to oil consulting firm Rystad Energy. Analysts say roughly half of those are in Texas. Key oil producers Nigeria, Algeria, Iraq and Iran are either consider‐ ing or seeking emergency funding from the International Monetary Fund, while others like Saudi Arabia are scrambling for ways to make savings. 01 全球储油空间即将耗尽，“油满为患”该怎么办？ 第一篇 Introduction 1 英语外刊阅读 The scarcity of storage tanks and the unprecedented oil crash are directly correlated. Even would-be buyers looking to take advantage of bargains can’t jump because they have nowhere to put their pur‐ chases. “A lack of physical storage is forcing oil-market economics to fall to shut-in levels,”says Jason Bor‐ doff, a former Obama administration energy adviser, who is now the founding director of Columbia Uni‐ versity’s Center on Global Energy Policy.“Incredibly low prices