印度4月原油加工量出现20年来最大跌幅

政府数据显示，炼油厂上月加工了约1,475万吨(360万桶/天)原油。受疫情影响，4月份印度的燃料需求减少了45.8%。需求下降导致印度炼油商和天然气进口商宣布进口遭遇不可抗力。

为储存石油和产品而苦苦挣扎的炼油商不得不向联邦政府出售一些石油，以填补战略储备。

本月燃料需求和炼油厂运营出现一些复苏。数据显示，印度炼油厂的日产量约为500万桶，占总产能的72%左右。

印度最大的炼油企业印度石油公司的开工率约为53%，而其子公司金奈石油公司旗下炼油厂的开工率跌至33%左右。

信实工业有限公司作为全球最大炼油厂的运营商，以约87%的产能运营着日产70万桶的贾姆那加尔炼油厂。

俄罗斯国家石油公司旗下的纳亚拉能源公司将其日产40万桶的瓦迪纳尔炼油厂的产能缩减至85％。

数据显示，印度4月石油产量较上年同期减少6.4%，约为255万吨，即62万桶/天，而该国80%以上的石油需求依赖进口。另外，天然气产量下降18.6%，至21.6亿立方米。

冯娟 摘译自 经济时报

原文如下：

India's April crude processing in biggest drop in at least nearly two decades

India's crude oil processing in April slumped by 28.8% from a year earlier, its biggest drop since at least 2003, as a nationwide lockdown weighed on fuel demand and forced refiners to cut production.

Refiners processed about 14.75 million tonnes or 3.60 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil last month, government data showed.

The lockdown and travel curbs aimed at stemming spread of COVID-19 since March 25 forced people to stay home, cutting India's fuel demand by 45.8% in April.

Falling demand led Indian refiners and gas importers to declare force majeure on imports.

Refiners, struggling to store oil and products, had to sell some oil to the federal government which used it to fill strategic storage.

India has extended its nationwide restrictions to May 31, but relaxed rules in areas with lower numbers of cases leading to some recovery in fuel demand and refiner runs this month.

Indian refiners operated at about 72% of their overall capacity of about 5 million bpd, the data showed.

Indian Oil Corp, the country's top refiner, operated its plant at about 53% capacity, while use at the refineries owned by its subsidiary Chennai Petroleum plunged to about 33% of capacity, the data showed.

Reliance Industries Ltd, operator of the world's biggest refining complex, operated its export-focussed 700,000 bpd Jamnagar refinery at about 87% capacity.

Nayara Energy, part owned by Russia's Rosneft, curtailed runs at its 400,000 bpd Vadinar refinery to 85% of capacity.

India, which imports over 80% of its oil needs, produced 6.4% less oil in April than a year earlier at around 2.55 million tonnes or 620,000 bpd, data showed.

Natural gas output fell 18.6% to 2.16 billion cubic metres, data showed.