据普氏能源资讯3月4日新加坡报道,来宝集团的一名高级主管4日在新加坡表示,尽管全球炼油企业不得不适应原油价格的波动,全球炼油企业仍将从低原油价格环境中享受更多的机会。
来宝集团研究部门全球主管Giovanni Serio是在新加坡举行的亚洲炼油峰会上发表上述讲话的。他说:“我们现在处在熊市,但是,原油的供应过剩会创造一个去做某事的动力。”
他说,充足的原油供应和不断增加的产品需求以及为炼油企业创造的健康储存经济将提高炼油企业的炼油利润率。“当你们有像2015年和现在一样的强劲需求时,你们就有动力去运行炼油厂。”
Serio说,去年燃料油损失占到炼油利润率的15%。然而,产品组成部分的统一价格以及更强劲的需求是炼油企业更强劲炼油利润率的关键驱动力,它将提高燃料油裂解以及降低炼油企业的相关损失。
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原文如下:
Refineries see opportunities from low crude oil prices: Noble executive
Singapore (Platts)--4 Mar 2016
Refineries globally are enjoying more opportunities in the lower crude oil price environment, despite having to adjust to crude price volatility, a senior executive of Noble Group said Friday.
"We are in a bearish market, but oversupply in crude creates an incentive to do something with that," Giovanni Serio, global head of research at Noble Group, said at the Asian refining summit in Singapore.
Ample crude supply and increased product demand, as well as healthy storage economics for refiners, are boosting margins, he said. "When you have strong demand like in 2015 and now, you have an incentive to run refineries."
Serio said that in 2015 fuel oil losses accounted for 15% of refinery margins. However, the flat price of product components and stronger demand were the key drivers of stronger refinery margins, improving fuel oil cracks, and reducing refineries' associated losses.