沙特阿美贸易公司将出售马来西亚原油

据7月6日Oil Monster消息：贸易人士称，自沙特阿美贸易公司(ATC)与马来西亚国家石油公司(Petronas)的合资炼油厂在3月发生火灾后关闭以来，该公司已出售了在马来西亚持有的近1,000万桶原油。

在石油输出国组织及其盟国（包括俄罗斯）将石油产量削减至创纪录的每天970万桶之后，ATC的原油销售价格因现货需求和供应趋紧后上涨。

亚洲炼油厂通常提前两个月购买原油，因此蓬格朗炼油厂提前预订的无法加工的原油必须储存在油罐和船舶中。

消息人士称，沙特阿美公司的贸易机构ATC于7月通过船对船转运方式在马来西亚的林吉港出售了不同等级的货物，包括沙特阿拉伯Extra Light，阿布扎比的Murban，尼日利亚的Agbami和阿塞拜疆的Azeri Light。买家包括北亚炼油厂，石油巨头和欧洲贸易公司。

因为受火灾影响的柴油加氢处理装置正在进行维修，合资伙伴尚未决定何时重启彭格朗炼油厂。

这家日产30万桶的炼油厂在2019年4月其大气残渣脱硫装置(ARDS)发生火灾后停工，停工前主要处理的是低硫原油。

该装置从燃油中去除硫，然后用于生产汽油，计划在2020年中期恢复运行。

冯娟 摘译自 Oil Monster

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Aramco Trading Sells Crude from Malaysia as Refinery Remains Shut

Aramco Trading Co (ATC), has sold close to 10 million barrels of crude oil it held around Malaysia since its joint venture refinery with Petronas was shut in March following a fire, four trade sources said.

ATC’s crude sales come as spot demand and prices have improved on tighter supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies including Russia cut output by a record 9.7 million barrels per day (bpd).

A fire killed five people in March at the Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Malaysia’s southern state of Johor, forcing the closure of the facility that was set to begin full commercial operations this year.

Asian refiners typically purchase crude two months ahead so supplies for the Pengerang refinery that were booked earlier and could not be processed had to be stored in tanks and ships, the sources said.

ATC, trading arm of Saudi Aramco, has sold various grades - including Saudi Arab Extra Light, Murban from Abu Dhabi, Agbami from Nigeria and Azeri Light from Azerbaijan - through tenders for July loading via ship-to-ship transfer at Malaysia’s Linggi port, the sources said.

Buyers include north Asian refiners, oil majors and European trading companies, the sources said.

Saudi Aramco and Petronas [PETR.UL] did not respond to requests for comment.

“Those (cargoes) are from floating storage which could not be discharged,” one of the sources said. The joint venture partners have not decided when they will restart the Pengerang refinery as repairs at the fire-hit diesel hydrotreating unit are ongoing, he said.

Before the shutdown, the 300,000-bpd refinery had been processing mainly sweet crude after an earlier fire at its atmospheric residue desulphurisation unit (ARDS) in April 2019.

The unit removes sulphur from fuel oil, which is then used to produce gasoline, and had been scheduled to resume operation by mid-2020.