伊拉克计划提高炼油厂产能

    中国石化新闻网讯 据油价网9月7日报道，根据阿格斯媒体（Argus Media）报导称，伊拉克计划将其北部Qayara炼油厂的日产量提高至9万桶。目前，Qayara工厂的日产能仅2万桶。

    伊拉克石油部长贾巴尔(Ihsan Abdul Jabbar)表示，在这份报告发布之前，一周前的另一份报告称，为了应对油价暴跌，巴格达计划将同样位于北部的Baiji炼油厂的日产能提高至28万桶。目前该炼油厂的日产能为7.5万桶，未来几个月将增至14万桶，然后增至28万桶。

    据Shafaq通讯社所援引该部长在一份新的声明中的话称，鉴于油价下跌和伊拉克经济面临的困难，该部依靠炼油、天然气和石化工业，这些被认为是维持和促进国家发展的经济支柱。

    Baiji炼油厂是伊拉克最大的炼油厂，加工了该国国内市场上三分之一的石油，供当地消费。以前该炼油厂的产能为31万桶/天，但战争后大大降低了产能，因为其成为了袭击的目标。自那时起，大部分产能已经恢复运营，但伊拉克仍无法用本国的炼油能力满足国内对燃料的全部需求。

    Qayara是另一个大型炼油厂，但伊拉克计划到2022年将国内炼油产能从目前的不足90万桶/天提高到150万桶/天。该公司曾为全新的炼油项目寻找投资者，但均未取得成功。根据Argus的报告，目前只有一个新的炼油厂项目在开发中，这就是Kerbala炼油厂，日产量为14万桶。该厂的资金全部来自国家预算。

    郝芬 译自 油价网

    原文如下：

    Iraq To Boost Refinery Capacity

    Iraq plans to increase the processing capacity of its Qayara refinery in the northern part of the country to 90,000 bpd, Argus Media reported. Currently, the capacity of the Qayara facility is just 20,000 bpd.

    The report follows another one from a week ago, which said Baghdad had plans to boost the capacity of the Baiji refinery, also in the north, to 280,000 bpd in response to the slump in oil prices, oil minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar said. Currently running at a capacity of 75,000 bpd, the refinery would be brought up to 140,000 bpd over the next few months and then to 280,000 bpd.

    "In the light of the decline in oil prices and the difficulties facing the Iraqi economy, the ministry is relying on refining, gas, and petrochemical industries, which are considered an economic pillar to sustain and enhance national development," the minister said in a new statement, as quoted by Shafaq news agency.

    Baiji is Iraq's largest refinery, processing a third of the oil output that stays on the domestic market for local consumption. Before  the facility had a nameplate capacity of 310,000 bpd, but the war that followed the insurgence reduced this significantly as it became the target of attacks. Since then, most of the capacity has been brought back online, but Iraq still cannot satisfy all domestic demand for fuels with its local refining capacity.

    Qayara is another large processing facility, but Iraq has had plans to boost its domestic refining capacity to 1.5 million bpd by 2022 from less than 900,000 bpd now. It has sought investors for whole new refinery projects but has had no success with these. According to the Argus report, there is just one new refinery project under development currently, and this is the Kerbala refinery, with a capacity of 140,000 bpd. It is being fully financed from the state budget.