印度低油价补充原油战略储备 节省逾6.85亿美元

据9月23日MENAFN消息：利用沙特阿拉伯和阿联酋等主要产油国的低油价，印度充实了战略原油储备，以满足紧急时期的能源需求，并在此过程中节省了6.851亿美元。

该公司在4月和5月以每桶19美元的平均价格购买原油，以补充其储备。当时油价跌至历史低点，而美国原油期货市场价格跌至负水平。

由国家出资的石油储备旨在应对短期供应中断，并将满足印度9.5天的石油需求。

当政府决定利用原油价格低的优势时，该国已经拥有533万吨总储油量的一半。

由印度战略石油储备有限公司(ISPRL)管理的印度在维沙卡帕特南(133万吨)，芒格鲁(150万吨)和帕杜尔(250万吨)的三个石油储备装置目前已满。

另一个650万吨的工厂即将在卡纳塔克邦的帕杜尔和贾布尔的昌迪科霍建成。

在拉贾斯坦邦的比卡内尔和古吉拉特邦的拉杰科特的另外两个设施将很快开工。完工后，这些设施将容纳足够的石油，以满足一个月以上的国内需求。

石油部还要求ISPRL确定新的地点，以便增加存储设施，确保90-100天的石油储备随时用于紧急情况。

较低的油价可以为大型战略石油储备能力带来更多好处，因为这可以为国库节省大量资金。

ISPRL已与阿布扎比国家石油公司(ADNOC)签署了谅解备忘录，以租赁其250万吨帕杜尔工厂的一半。去年，它与沙特阿美公司签署了一份备忘录，以租用Padur SPR的四分之一。

ISPRL已经将Mangaluru仓库150万吨产能的一半租借给了ADNOC。该公司还在其103万吨的Vizag设施中注入了来自另一个欧佩克产油国伊拉克的巴士拉石油。

冯娟 摘译自 MENAFN

原文如下：

India tops up strategic reserves with cheaper crude, saves over $685M

Taking advantage of low prices in major oil-producing centres in Saudi Arabia and UAE, India has filled up its strategic crude oil reserves to meet its energy needs in times of emergency and saved a neat $685.11 million in the process.

It bought crude oil at an average price of $19 per barrel to fill its reserves in April and May when prices reached an all-time low while the US oil touched negative price levels in futures market.

The state-funded reserves are meant to tide over short-term supply disruptions and will take care of India's oil needs for 9.5 days.

The country was already holding half of its total 5.33 million tonnes oil reserves capacity when the government decided to take advantage of the low crude prices.

India's three petroleum reserve caverns at Visakhapatnam (1.33MT), Mangaluru (1.5MT) and Padur (2.5MT), managed by India Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL), are now full.

Another 6.5MT facility is coming up at Padur in Karnataka, and Chandikhole in Jajpur.

Work on two more facility at Bikaner in Rajasthan and Rajkot in Gujarat will be initiated soon. When complete, these facilities will hold enough oil to meet domestic requirements for over a month.

The oil ministry has also told the ISPRL to identify new sites so that the storage facility is increased to ensure oil stock of 90-100 days for use in an emergency at all times.

A large strategic oil reserve capacity can benefit even more from lower oil prices as these lead to huge savings for the exchequer.

The ISPRL has signed a memorandum of understanding with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) for the lease of half of its 2.5 million tonnes Padur facility. Last year, it signed an MoU with Saudi Aramco for the lease of a quarter of Padur SPR.

The ISPRL has already leased half of the 1.5 million tonne capacity in Mangaluru storage to ADNOC. It has also filled its 1.03 million tonne Vizag facility with Basra oil from another OPEC producer, Iraq.