据今日油价5月13日消息，挪威今年将利用其创纪录的1万亿美元石油基金（世界上最大的主权财富基金）的石油收入来?应对新冠病毒疫情和低油价造成的经济低迷。

西欧最大的石油生产国政府几十年来从石油收入中积累了超过1万亿美元的资金，周二提出了2020年的修订预算，要求从该基金中使用410亿美元(4,196亿挪威克朗)。这笔款项将占基金年初估值的4.2%。

挪威很少使用超过3%的政府全球养老基金，因为挪威的石油基金是众所周知的。

财政部长Jan Tore Sanner在一份声明中表示:“在目前的情况下，增加支出是必要的，这既是为了避免更严重的衰退，也是为了帮助健康的公司度过危机，这样他们就可以在正常情况下创造就业和增长。”

与世界其他国家一样，挪威的经济也受到了社会疏远措施的打击，而作为该国经济主要贡献者的石油和天然气行业，也受到了低油价的影响。

上周，挪威出人意料地将其主要政策利率下调至0%，理由是油价暴跌以及疫情造成的经济活动急剧下滑。

挪威央行(Norges Bank)在一份声明中表示：“疫情对周边国家的严重影响和油价的大幅下跌加剧了经济低迷。较低的油价导致克朗汇率走弱。”此前，该行出人意料地将挪威克朗利率下调了25个基点至零。

为了支持全球支撑油价和缓解供应过剩的努力，挪威已决定在6月将原油日产量削减25万桶，然后在2020年剩余时间将日产量维持在13.4万桶的较低水平。这是挪威自2002年以来首次加入减产行列。然而当年911恐怖袭击后石油价格跌至每桶20美元以下时，挪威在当年上半年仅将石油日产量降低了15万桶。

裘寅 编译自 今日油价

原文如下：

Norway Takes $41 Billion From Oil Fund To Bolster Economy

Norway is set to use a record amount of petroleum revenues from its US$1-trillion oil fund – the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund – this year to counter the economic slump from the COVID-19 pandemic and low oil prices.

The government of Western Europe’s largest oil producer, whose wealth fund has amassed more than US$1 trillion from petroleum revenues over the decades – proposed on Tuesday a revised budget for 2020, which calls for using US$41 billion (419.6 billion Norwegian crowns) from the fund. This sum would account for 4.2 percent of the estimated value of the fund at the beginning of this year.

Norway has rarely used more than 3 percent of the Government Pension Fund Global, as Norway’s oil fund is officially known.

“‘Increased spending has been a necessity in the current situation – both to avoid an even sharper downturn and to help healthy companies through the crisis so they can create jobs and growth when normal circumstances return,” Finance Minister Jan Tore Sanner said in a statement.

Norway’s economy has been hit by the social distancing measures like every other country around the world, while the oil and gas sector – a major contributor to the economy – is also suffering from the low oil prices after oil demand crashed in the pandemic.

Last week, Norway slashed its key policy rate to 0 percent in a surprise move, citing the oil price crash and the sharp drop in economic activity as a result of the pandemic.

“The downturn is amplified by the severe impact of the pandemic on surrounding countries and by a sharp fall in oil prices. Lower oil prices have contributed to weakening the krone exchange rate,” Norges Bank said in a statement, after delivering what analysts described a ‘surprise’ cut by 25 basis points to zero.

In a bid to support global efforts to prop up oil prices and ease the glut, Norway has decided it would cut its crude oil production by 250000 bpd in June, and then maintain a 134,000-bpd lower rate of production for the rest of 2020. This is the first time Norway has joined oil production cuts since 2002. Then, Norway reduced its production rate by 150,000 bpd over the first half of the year, after oil fell below $20 a barrel following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.