据美国合众国际社8月4日报道,科威特宣布其装载原油的货船已首次驶往其在越南的炼油厂,随后越南在能源市场引发关注。
科威特石油国际公司副总裁Ghanem al-Otaibi负责将这批原油送往总投资为92亿美元的仪山炼油厂。该批200万桶原油将于8月19日抵达越南,另一批原油预计将于下周离开科威特港。
据官方科威特通讯社(KUNA)称,该批原油出口符合科威特石油公司的战略目标,即为科威特石油寻找新的渠道,扩大投资机会。
科威特作为减产监察委员会主席,负责监督1月份实施的限产协议的执行效果。签订协议的各方需遵守减产180万桶/天,并重视与俄罗斯等非欧佩克重要成员国的合作。
科威特较高的出口水平,在短期内尚能够与欧佩克的减产要求相匹配,但长期情况下,势必将打破其国内存量平衡。科威特计划总共向越南的炼油厂提供6批货物,合计为1200万桶原油。
章盈盈 摘译自 合众国际社
原文如下:
Kuwait ships first batch of oil to refinery in Vietnam
Vietnam drew more energy attention as Kuwait announced it sent its first-ever shipment east to a Kuwaiti-built refinery in the Asian nation.
Ghanem al-Otaibi, a vice president at Kuwait Petroleum International, was on hand for the first shipment to the $9.2 billion Nghi Son refinery. The batch of 2 million barrels of oil should arrive Aug. 19 and another shipment is expected to leave Kuwaiti ports next week.
According to the official Kuwait News Agency, known also as KUNA, the shipment aligns with the strategic objectives of the Kuwaiti Petroleum Corp., namely finding new outlets for Kuwait oil and expanding investment opportunities.
Kuwait chairs a committee of members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and non-member states monitoring the impact of an agreement implemented in January. Parties to the agreement opted to sideline 1.8 million barrels of oil per day from production and counts on cooperation from key non-OPEC members like Russia.
Higher exports from Kuwait should matter in OPEC's effort short-term, but balance out against domestic inventories over a period of time. In total, Kuwait plans six shipments to the refinery in Vietnam, for a total volume of 12 million barrels of crude oil.