石油圈中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社3月10日麦纳麦报道，巴林国有石油公司Bapco首席执行官表示，巴林计划在2023年初启用其扩建的炼油厂，使其能够在海湾地区和亚洲销售更多的石油产品。 Pete Bartlett表示，此次扩建将把Sitra炼油厂的日产量从目前的26.7万桶提高至36万桶。 Bapco目前每天从沙特阿美获得22万至23万桶原油，在炼油厂扩建期间也将进口同样数量的原油，预计在2022年底或2023年初投产。 2018年10月，沙特阿美和Bapco宣布投产AB-4，这是沙特-巴林原油管道的新阶段，日输送能力可达35万桶，将用于巴林炼油厂的扩建计划。 “我们正步入正轨。”Bartlett在谈到扩张时表示。 巴林是一个非欧佩克产油国，拥有约1.246亿桶已探明储量，石油收入来自两个油田:巴林陆上油田和与沙特阿拉伯共享的Abu Safah海上油田。 巴林油田日产量约为5万桶。 巴林和沙特阿拉伯分别从日产30万桶的Abu Safah油田获得收入，该油田的生产由沙特阿美负责。 当被问及沙特对巴林的出口是否会受到欧佩克主导的减产的影响时，Bartlett表示:“沙特阿美和Bapco是强有力的合作伙伴，因此我们对原料的采购不受欧佩克管理自身销售的举措的影响。” 他补充称，炼油厂扩建及由此带来的产量增加，可能促使Bapco将更多精力放在现货交易上，但该公司不太可能像中东其它国家石油公司那样，建立自己的交易合资企业。 Bartlett表示:“我们将购买更多原料，交易更多产品。”他补充称，该公司还将继续关注现货交易。 “我们将寻求进一步发展承购安排和销售安排，但我们的核心市场仍将在海湾合作委员会(GCC)内部，我们将越来越多地发现自己在亚洲竞争机会。” Bapco炼油厂大约88%的原油来自邻国沙特阿拉伯，其余来自巴林油田。 Bartlett表示，炼油厂的扩建项目融资将于本月完成，融资规模超过40亿美元。 孔丽炜 摘译自路透社 原文如下： Bahrain’s Bapco eyeing oil trading boost with refinery capacity expansion Bahrain plans to commission its expanded oil refinery by early 2023, allowing it to sell and trade more petroleum products in the Gulf region and Asia, the chief executive of state-owned oil company Bapco said. The expansion will boost the capacity of its Sitra oil refinery to 360,000 barrels per day (bpd) from the current 267,000 bpd, Pete Bartlett has said. Bapco currently receives 220,000-230,000 bpd of crude from state oil company Saudi Aramco and will import the same volume during the refinery’s expansion, with commissioning scheduled for late 2022 or early 2023. In October 2018 Aramco and Bapco announced the commissioning of the AB-4, a new phase of the Saudi-Bahrain crude oil pipeline, capable of transporting up to 350,000 bpd, which would serve Bahrain’s planned refinery expansion. “We are on track,” Mr Bartlett said of the expansion. A non-Opec oil producer, Bahrain has around 124.6 million barrels of proven reserves and gets its oil revenue from two fields: the onshore Bahrain field, and the offshore Abu Safah field, which is shared with Saudi Arabia. The Bahrain field produces around 50,000 bpd. Bahrain and Saudi Arabia split revenues from the 300,000-bpd Abu Safah field, where production is overseen by Aramco. “Aramco and Bapco are strong partners and so our purchases of feedstock are unaffected by what Opec is doing in terms of managing its own sales,” Mr Bartlett said when asked whether Saudi exports to Bahrain would be affected by Opec-led supply cuts. The refinery expansion and resulting production increase may prompt Bapco to focus more on spot trading, but the company is unlikely to establish its own trading joint venture like other national oil companies in the Middle East, he added. “We will buy more feedstock and will be trading more products,” Mr Bartlett said, adding the company would continue to look also at trading spot cargoes. “We will be looking to develop off-take arrangements and sale arrangements further but our core markets will remain within the greater GCC (Gulf region) and increasingly we will find ourselves competing for opportunities in Asia.” Around 88 per cent of the crude that Bapco refines comes from neighbouring Saudi Arabia, and the rest from Bahrain’s field. The refinery’s expansion project financing – which is more than $4 billion in size – will be finalised this month, Mr Bartlett said.
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