2019年贸易巨头维多的石油贸易量增长8％

据能源世界网3月27日伦敦报道，全球能源贸易商Vitol上周五表示，其2019年收入为2250亿美元，石油和精炼产品交易量增长了8%。

该公司的首席执行官罗素·哈迪(Russell Hardy)表示，去年的业绩是“坚实”，因为该公司的原油日交易量达到800万桶，高于2018年的740万桶。

哈迪在一份声明中称，处于这样的困境，相对紧缩有利于利润率，使我们能够优化性能。大多数产品都从这些条件中受益，其中原油量增长了10％，轻油增长了20％，汽油增长了13％。正如预期的那样，海事组织影响了高硫燃料油的需求，因此我们的燃料油量因此下降了11％。

根据国际海事组织的新规定，一月初，全球航运业必须开始使用最大硫含量为0.5％的燃料，以减少污染。

全球最大的石油贸易商Vitol及其竞争对手越来越多地考虑如何调整其业务模式，这些业务模式严重依赖化石燃料，以实现能源转型。

哈迪称，Vitol预计“尽管基础相对较低，但非石油业务将在我们的收入中所占份额不断增加”。由于天然气燃烧比煤炭或燃料油等其他化石燃料更清洁，其交易的液化天然气数量跃升35%，至1050万吨。我们预计将在未来36个月内投资超过10亿瓦的可再生能源发电量。

在加纳，Vitol与意大利能源巨头埃尼和加纳GNPC的联合上游天然气项目，去年使该国减少了160多万吨碳排放，因为其发电站用天然气取代了液体燃料。

郝芬 译自 能源世界网

原文如下：

Energy trader Vitol's oil volumes rose 8 per cent in 2019

Global energy trader Vitol said on Friday its 2019 revenues were $225 billion and its traded oil and refined products volumes rose by 8 per cent.

Chief Executive Russell Hardy said last year's performance was "solid", as the company's traded oil volume hit 8 million barrels per day (bpd), up from 7.4 million bpd in 2018.

"Across the barrel, margins were favoured by a relative tightness, enabling us to optimise performance ... Most products benefited from these conditions, with crude oil volumes increasing 10 per cent, gasoil 20 per cent and gasoline 13 per cent," Hardy said in a statement.

"As anticipated, IMO impacted high sulphur fuel oil demand and our fuel oil volumes consequently fell 11 per cent."

At the beginning of January, the global shipping industry had to start using fuel with a maximum sulphur content of 0.5 per cent according to new rules by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in order to cut pollution.

Vitol, the world's largest oil trader, and its competitors have increasingly been looking at how to adjust their business models, heavily reliant on fossil fuels, to the energy transition.

Hardy said Vitol expects "non-oil to comprise an increasing share of our revenues, albeit from a relatively low base". Its traded liquefied natural gas volumes jumped 35 per cent to 10.5 million tonnes as part of this shift as natural gas burns cleaner than other fossil fuels like coal or fuel oil.

"(We) anticipate being invested in over a gigawatt of renewable power capacity in the next 36 months," he said.

In Ghana, Vitol's joint upstream gas project with Italian major Eni and Ghana's GNPC allowed the country to cut carbon emissions by over 1.6 million tonnes last year as its power stations replaced liquid fuels with natural gas.