据普氏能源资讯7月26日新加坡报道,由于炼油企业把柴油转向国内市场来满足不断增加的夏季需求,而对汽油驱动车辆日益增加的喜好支持了汽油消费量并引发了不同寻常的燃料高进口,印度6月份的石油产品出口跌到了过去6年来的低点。
尽管国营和私营炼油企业达到创纪录的开工率,然而,印度仍发生了石油产品出口大幅下降。
Energy Aspects首席石油分析师Amrita Sen说:“印度国内汽油需求不断增加迫使印度炼油企业进口汽油。我们预计汽油需求将继续保持强劲,因此汽油进口将继续。”
印度石油规划和分析机构最近公布的统计数据显示,印度今年上半年进口了48.8万吨汽油,而去年同期仅进口了6.1万吨。
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原文如下:
India quenches gasoline thirst with unusually high imports, shrinking exports
Singapore (Platts)--26Jul2015
India's oil product exports plunged nearly 30% to six-year lows in June as refiners diverted diesel to the domestic market to meet surging summer demand, while growing preference for petrol-driven vehicles supported gasoline consumption and triggered unusually high imports of the fuel.
The sharp drop in exports occurred despite record runs at state-run and private refiners.
"Burgeoning gasoline demand has forced Indian refineries to import gasoline. We expect gasoline demand to remain strong and hence imports to continue," said Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects.
India has imported 488,000 mt of gasoline in the first half of 2015, compared with just 61,000 mt in the same period the previous year, data released recently by the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell showed.