据俄罗斯油气网8月22日莫斯科报道，路透社21日援引5名交易消息人士的话报道说，俄罗斯最大的国有石油生产商俄罗斯石油公司(俄油/Rosneft)本月早些时候告诉客户，未来招标合同中的石油产品销售将以欧元而不是美元定价。

俄油此举被交易商和分析师视为未来对冲美国可能对俄罗斯和/或其石油行业实施新制裁的一种手段。

2014年，美国和欧盟对俄罗斯和俄罗斯公司实施制裁。自那以来，俄油一直在美国财政部的制裁名单上。不过，这些制裁并没有禁止俄油接受美元作为其出售石油和石油产品的付款。

俄油在俄罗斯炼油厂生产的石油产品中，约有一半出口。大多数出口石油产品是通过招标的方式出售给主要的国际商品贸易商或石油巨头的贸易单位。托克、维托尔、嘉能可、BP和Cetracore是俄油石油产品在年度、现货或短期招标中的一些最大买家。

据接受路透社采访的交易商称，俄油在未来的招标中以欧元取代美元的目的是尽可能减轻美国未来对俄油难以预料的制裁。

李峻 编译自 俄罗斯油气网

原文如下：

Rosneft to sell oil products in Euros to avoid possible new U.S. sanctions

Neftegaz.RU. The largest Russian oil producer Rosneft, told customers earlier this month that oil product sales in tender contracts will be priced in euros instead of U.S. dollars, Reuters reported on August 21, citing 5 trading sources.

Rosneft’s move is seen by traders and analysts as a future hedge against potential new U.S. sanctions on Russia and/or its oil industry.

Rosneft has been on a list of sanctioned entities of the U.S. Department of the Treasury since 2014, when the U.S. and the EU imposed sanctions on Russia and Russian companies. Those sanctions, however, don’t prohibit Rosneft accepting U.S. dollars as payments for the oil and oil product it sells.

Rosneft exports around half of the oil products its refineries in Russia produce. Most of the exported oil products are being sold via tenders to major international commodity traders or the trading units of oil majors. Trafigura, Vitol, Glencore, BP, and Cetracore are some of the top buyers of Rosneft’s oil products in annual, spot, or short-term tenders.

According to traders who spoke to Reuters, the goal of replacing the U.S. dollar with Euros in future tenders - and this switch could be made as soon as this year - is to mitigate as much as possible future unpredictable U.S. sanctions on Rosneft.