中国石化新闻网讯 据普氏能源资讯3月16日新德里报道,印度最大的国有炼油企业印度石油公司(IOC)主席B Ashok日前在新德里表示,该公司计划今后5至7年投资260亿美元来扩大和升级其现有的炼油厂、建造一个全新炼油厂以及推动海外扩张计划。
Ashok是在普氏能源资讯石油论坛将在新德里和孟买举行前在一次独家采访中发表上述讲话的。他说:“我们目前的年炼油能力略微超过8000万吨,在所有的扩建完成后,我们的年炼油能力将接近1亿吨。所有这些将在未来的5至7年里发生。”
他说,为了满足国内对石油产品不断增加的需求以及更加严格的燃料规格,IOC将在未来5至7年里在各种项目上花费大约1.75万亿卢比(260亿美元)。
来自印度石油规划和分析机构的统计数据显示,去年印度石油产品需求强劲增长了8.5%,平均日需求量达到了381万桶,而今年前两个月石油产品需求同比增长了10%,平均日需求量达到了414万桶。领先增长的是汽油和石脑油,而液化石油气、柴油和航空煤油也是强劲的贡献者。
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India's IOC earmarks $26 billion in investment over 5-7 years
New Delhi (Platts)--16 Mar 2016
India's largest state-owned refiner Indian Oil Corp has earmarked $26 billion in investment plans over the next five to seven years as it looks to expand and upgrade its existing refineries, build a new greenfield plant, and push with overseas expansion plans, IOC Chairman B Ashok said Monday.
"Our current refining capacity is a little more than 80 million mt/year (1.6 million b/d) and after all the expansions, we should be close to 100 million mt/year," Ashok said in an exclusive interview ahead of Platts Oil Forums in New Delhi and Mumbai. "All this will happen over the next five to seven years."
He said that IOC will be spending about Rupees 1.75 trillion ($26 billion) on various projects over that period as the company looks to meet the country's rising products demand and more stringent fuel specifications.
India's oil product demand rose a robust 8.5% in 2015 to an average 3.81 million b/d and that pace of growth was outdone in the first two months of the year when demand rose 10% year on year to an average 4.14 million b/d, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell showed.
Leading the growth are gasoline and naphtha, with LPG, diesel and jet also strong contributors.