据路透社10月17日开普敦报道,南非战略燃料基金会(SFF)的一名官员16日在开普敦表示,为增加储备确保国内供应,南非战略燃料基金会正在寻求从伊拉克每年进口2400万桶原油。这将是南非在过去十多年里第一次从巴格达进口原油。
南非自2003年萨达姆·侯赛因倒台以来一直没有从伊拉克进口原油。
南非SFF代理首席执行官Sibusiso Gamede对路透社记者说:“作为供应安全的一部分,SFF已向伊拉克国有石油公司SOMO申请分配原油,而我们时下正在等待SOMO的答复。我们寻求每个月从伊拉克获得200万桶原油,即每年获得2400万桶原油。”
伊拉克驻比勒陀利亚的一名高级外交官日前曾表示,尽管分析师对上述进口数字持怀疑态度,南非一直在寻求从巴格达获得更多的原油。
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原文如下:
South Africa to buy Iraqi crude to boost supply security
CAPE TOWN, October 17, 2015
South Africa's Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) is seeking to import 24 million barrels of oil a year from Iraq to boost its reserves in what would be South Africa's first crude imports from Baghdad for more than a decade, an official said on Friday.
South Africa has not imported crude oil from Iraq since 2003, when Saddam Hussein was toppled.
"As part of security of supply, SFF applied for an allocation with the Iraqi state-owned oil company SOMO and we are waiting for SOMO to respond," SFF's acting chief executive officer, Sibusiso Gamede said.
"We are looking at two million (barrels) per month, adding up to 24 million (barrels) a year," he told Reuters.
According to a senior Iraqi diplomat based in Pretoria, South Africa had been looking for significantly more, although analysts were sceptical over the amounts mentioned.-Reuters