印度战略储备石油成本为每桶19美元

据今日油价9月22日报道，印度石油和天然气部周一表示，印度利用今年早些时候超低的原油价格将其战略储备石油价格降低到每桶19美元，在此过程中节省了近7亿美元。

印度外交部在一份声明中表示：“利用国际市场的低原油价格，印度在2020年4月至5月购买了1671万桶原油，并填补了在维沙卡帕特南、曼加罗尔和帕杜尔建立的三个战略石油储备。”

4月和5月，印度购买原油的平均成本为每桶19美元，而2020年1月的油价为每桶60美元。由于今年第二季度初出现多年来最便宜的油价，印度在原油进口账单上节省了6.851亿美元。

和世界上最大的石油进口国中国一样，印度也在4月份利用几十年来最低的油价囤积原油。因此，与去年同期相比，印度在2020年4月至7月间进口的原油要少得多，原因是石油价格明显较低，而且在燃料需求下降的情况下，进口量也较低。

由于国际油价基准大幅下跌，印度本财年第一季度的原油进口总额在4 至7月份为124亿美元。上周，普拉丹表示，印度进口了5720万吨原油，相比之下，2019年同期进口了7490万吨，价值362亿美元。

印度的燃料需求在最初的全国封锁期间暴跌了60%，8月份再次出现月度环比下降，为4月份以来最大月度降幅，原因是局部封锁影响了人员流动性和经济活动。

印度的石油进口量也可能引发石油市场的担忧。6月份，印度石油进口量降至5年多以来的最低水平，而7月份的进口量则跌至10多年来的最低水平，原因是当地的停产和炼油厂维修。

王佳晶 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

India Topped Its Strategic Petroleum Reserves With $19 A Barrel Oil

India used the ultra-low crude oil prices earlier this year to top its strategic petroleum reserves with oil at $19 a barrel, saving nearly US$700 million in the process, India’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas said on Monday.

“Taking advantage of the low crude oil prices in international market, India purchased 16.71 million barrels (mbbl) of crude in April – May, 2020 and filled all the three Strategic Petroleum Reserves created at Vishakhapatnam, Mangalore and Padur,” the ministry said in a statement, quoting Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan as telling Parliament in a written reply today.

The average cost at which India bought the crude oil in April and May was $19 per barrel, compared to $60 a barrel oil price in January 2020. Thanks to the cheapest oil in years at the start of the second quarter, India saved US$685.11 million on its crude oil import bill, the ministry said.

India, like the world’s largest oil importer, China, took advantage of the lowest oil prices in decades in April to stock up on crude oil.

As a result, India paid much less for the crude oil imported between April and July 2020 compared to the same period last year, due to the significantly low oil prices and lower import volumes amid decreased fuel demand.

Because of the slump in international oil price benchmarks, India’s crude oil import bill was US$12.4 billion in April-July, the first quarter of India’s fiscal year. For this sum, India imported 57.2 million tons of crude oil, compared to imports of 74.9 million tons worth US$36.2 billion for the same period of 2019, Pradhan told Parliament last week.

Fuel demand in India, which crashed by 60 percent during the initial nationwide lockdown, fell again in August month over month, for the biggest monthly decline since April, as localized lockdowns impacted mobility and economic activity.

India’s oil import volumes could also be a source of concern on the oil market—imports fell in June to the lowest in more than five years, while the imports in July slumped to their lowest level in over a decade amid local lockdowns and refinery maintenance.