严寒过后 美国炼油厂仍处于停产状态

据今日油价报道，据彭博社消息，截至周一，由于德州冰冻天气而关闭的18家美国炼油厂中，只有7家恢复正常运营。要知道，被迫关闭的18家炼油厂每天的原油处理能力高达550万桶。

根据美国能源信息署（EIA）的数据，由于德克萨斯州的冰冻天气，在截至2月26日的一周内，美国炼油厂可操作产能的周利用率降至56%，这是自1990年11月EIA开始跟踪该数据以来的最低可操作产能利用率。

EIA数据显示，尽管原油库存最终降至五年平均水平，但炼油厂停产阻止了库存的下降，上周原油库存激增2200万桶。

不过，现在的迹象表明石油的利用率在慢慢增加，而原油库存在减少。

美国最大的炼油厂，Motiva公司60.7万桶/天的亚瑟港炼油厂，在关闭11天后，于2月26日相对较快地重启了其最大的原油加工部门。

截至周日，埃克森美孚Baytown炼油厂计划重启日产量28.03万桶的pipejorl -8原油蒸馏装置，马拉松（Marathon）也重启了位于Galveston Bay大型炼油厂的原油蒸馏装置。

周一，道达尔的亚瑟港炼油厂CDU计划重启。彭博社报道称，本周还将有更多炼油厂上线。

其他报告显示，壳牌31.8万桶/天的Deer Park炼油厂可能要到4月份才会开工。

德克萨斯州的寒流给美国石油行业造成了许多问题，断电、管道和道路冻结导致美国石油和天然气生产大量关闭，炼油厂的关闭数量超过了2017年哈维飓风造成的关闭数量。

王佳晶 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

U.S. Oil Refineries Still Down And Out After Freeze

Just seven U.S. oil refineries out of the 18 that were down due to the Texas Freeze are operating normally as of Monday, according to Bloomberg.

Those 18 refineries that were down accounted for as much as 5.5 million barrels of crude processing capacity per day.

As a result of the Texas Freeze, according to Energy Information Administration data, weekly U.S. percent utilization of refinery operable capacity dipped to 56% during the week ending February 26—the lowest operable utilization of operable capacity since the EIA began tracking the data in November 1990.

And while crude oil inventories had finally fallen to the five-year average before the Freeze, the refinery outages stopped the inventory drawdowns in their tracks, and crude oil stocks ballooned by 22 million barrels last week, according to the EIA.

But all signs point to this utilization increasing—and crude stocks decreasing.

The largest refinery in the United States, Motiva’s 607,000 bpd Port Arthur refinery, restarted its largest crude oil processing unit relatively quickly, on February 26, after being down for 11 days.

As of Sunday, ExxonMobil’s Baytown refinery was set to restart its 280,300 bpd Pipestill-8 crude distillation unit, and Marathon restarted its crude distillation unit at its large Galveston Bay refinery.

On Monday, Total’s Port Arthur refinery CDU was scheduled to restart.

And more refineries are set to come online yet this week, Bloomberg reports.

Other reports suggested that Shell’s 318,000 bpd Deer Park refinery could be down until April.

The cold snap in Texas caused widespread issues for the U.S. oil industry, with power outages, frozen pipes and roads shutting in a large volume of U.S. oil and natural gas production, in addition to refinery closures that exceeded what Hurricane Harvey forced shut in 2017.