据今日油价网站2月9日消息 尽管油价高达90美元，但世界第三大石油进口国印度的国有炼油厂仍在市场上寻找现货供应，以满足其定期合同交付的需求，因为国有炼油厂希望实现年产量目标。

炼油厂官员向彭博社表示，印度23家炼油厂中的大多数在1月份以高于额定的产能运营，许多炼油厂正在现货市场购买货物，以实现2021/2022财年的炼油厂生产目标。

印度2021/2022年1月至3月第四季度的高需求可能是油价的又一个看涨因素，今年迄今为止，油价已上涨近20%。

熟悉情况的炼油厂官员表示，1月份印度炼油厂的平均运行率为101%，去年8月为87%。

彭博社消息人士称，包括印度石油公司（IOC）、巴拉特石油有限公司（BPCL）和印度斯坦石油有限公司（HPCL）在内的最大国有炼油厂正在现货市场购买更多原油，或向其定期合同供应商伊拉克和沙特阿拉伯索要额外的石油。

截至今年2022年3月的2021/2022财年，由于2021年疫情，炼油厂一直落后于生产目标。

除了努力达到目标之外，印度炼油厂还受到激励，生产更多柴油，这是该国使用最广泛的燃料，因为该产品的炼油利润率达到了两年左右的最高水平。

例如，印度石油公司1 月底报告称2021年4月至12月期间净利润增长，这得益于较高的炼油利润率。精炼毛利润（GRM）在2021年4月至12月为每桶8.52美元，相比之下，在之前一个财政年度为每桶2.96美元。

王磊 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

India’s Crude Demand Is Rising Despite High Oil Prices

Despite $90 oil prices, state refiners at the world’s third-largest oil importer, India, are scouring the market for spot supply to top their term contract deliveries as state-owned refineries look to meet annual output targets.

Most of India’s 23 refineries operated at above nameplate capacity in January, and many are buying cargoes on the spot market to reach the 2021/2022 fiscal year refinery production goals, officials at refineries told Bloomberg.

The high demand in India’s 2021/2022 fourth-quarter between January and March could be yet another bullish factor for oil prices, which have rallied by nearly 20 percent so far this year. 

Average refinery run rates at Indian refineries were 101 percent in January, compared to 87 percent in August last year, the refinery officials familiar with the situation told Bloomberg.

The biggest state oil refiners, including Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), are buying more crude oil on the spot market or asking their term contract suppliers Iraq and Saudi Arabia for extra barrels of oil, Bloomberg’s sources said.

So far in the fiscal 2021/2022 year ending March 2022, refiners have been lagging behind the production targets due to the COVID wave in the summer of 2021. 

Apart from chasing targets, Indian refiners are incentivized to produce more diesel—the most widely used fuel in the country—because refining margins for the product are at their strongest in around two years.

IOC, for example, reported at the end of January a rise in net profit for the April-December 2021 period, thanks to higher refining margins. The gross refining margin (GRM) during the period April – December 2021 was US$8.52 per barrel, compared to US$2.96 per barrel in the same period of the previous financial year 2020/2021, the largest oil refiner in India said in a statement.  

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