美国将从IMO船用燃料新规中获益

中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社伦敦10月11日消息，贡沃尔集团预测，美国将成为船用燃料新规的最大赢家。

国际海事组织（IMO）制定了新的船用燃料规定，2020年1月1日起，将船用燃料的硫含量上限从当前的3.5%大幅降至0.5%，除非船舶配备了洗涤器来净化硫的排放。

全球航运业一直预计新规将导致更清洁的馏分油需求大幅上升，主要是柴油，而燃料油需求将大幅减少。

在伦敦举行的石油与货币会议上，贡沃尔集团CEO Torbjorn Tornqvist表示，这一转变最初肯定会造成市场的一些混乱，因为存储和物流方面都将面临新的挑战，而美国将成为主要的整体赢家。

Tornqvist表示：“IMO船用燃料新规的大赢家实际上是美国。美国拥有世界上最先进的炼油系统，并将利用进口更多的重质原油，同时出口更多的轻质原油来获得更大的溢价。”

唐绍红 摘译自 路透社

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Traders say U.S. to be big winner of new IMO shipping rules

The United States is set to be the big winner from new marine fuel rules, trading house Gunvor Group predicted.

The UN’s International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has set new rules that will ban ships from using fuels with a sulfur content above 0.5 percent from 2020, compared with 3.5 percent now, unless they are equipped with so-called scrubbers to clean up sulfur emissions.

The industry has been expecting a sharp rise in demand for cleaner distillates, mainly diesel, at the expense of fuel oil that would become largely redundant.

Gunvor Group Chief Executive Torbjorn Tornqvist said at the Oil & Money conference in London that the switch would certainly create some chaos at first as storage and logistics must deal with a “cocktail of fuel blends” and that the United States would be the major overall winner.

“The big winner in the IMO is actually the United States. They have the most advanced refining system in the world and will take advantage of importing more heavy crude oil and they will export light crude oil that will get a bigger premium,” he said.