印度或将部分原油储存在美国

据今日油价7月17日报道，《印度斯坦时报》援引知情人士的话称，印度可能将部分原油储存在美国。在美国储存石油的提议仍处于初级阶段。印度石油部长Dharmendra Pradhan和美国能源部长Dan Brouillette可能会在周五举行的印美战略能源伙伴关系(SEP)第二次部长级会议上讨论这个问题。

印度是世界第三大石油消费国，其加工和消费的原油中80%以上依赖进口。与世界其他国家一样，该国的燃料需求也受到了疫情爆发的不利影响，分析人士警告称，该国可能需要比预期更长的时间才能恢复。

与此同时，印度的石油储存能力有限，危机期间很快就达到了上限。今年5月，至少有三家印度炼油厂要求减少中东原油的供应量，因为没有空间来存储石油。路透社上月报导，印度5月总进口量降至逾八年来最低水平，为每日318万桶。

一些炼油商宣布进口受到不可抗力的影响，而其他炼油商则将剩余的石油货物卖给印度政府作为战略石油储备。

充足的石油储备对印度的能源安全至关重要，而积累石油储备最快方式是利用合作伙伴的储备设施，美国已经成为印度的一个重要能源合作伙伴。

王佳晶 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

India Could Store Some Of Its Crude In The U.S.

India may store some of its crude oil in the United States, the Hindustan Times reports, citing unnamed sources in the know.

“The proposal to store oil in the US is still at an initial stage. It may be discussed at the second ministerial meeting of the India and US Strategic Energy Partnership (SEP) between Indian petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the US energy secretary Dan Brouillette on Friday,” one of the sources told the news outlet.

India, the world’s third-largest oil consumer, imports more than 80 percent of the crude oil it processes and consumes. Like the rest of the world, the country’s fuel demand was affected adversely by the coronavirus outbreak and analysts have warned it may take longer to recover than could be hoped for.

At the same time, India has limited oil storage capacity and it got filled quickly amid the crisis, with at least three Indian refiners asking for lower deliveries of crude from the Middle East in May as there was nowhere to store it. Total imports in May dropped to the lowest in more than eight years, Reuters reported last month, at 3.18 million bpd.

As a result, some refiners declared force majeure on imports and others sold surplus oil cargos to the Indian government for its strategic petroleum reserve.

Sufficient oil reserves in storage are crucial for the country’s energy security, and the quickest way to amass it is to use a partner’s storage facilities. The United States has emerged as an important partner in energy.

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