据路透社10月17日新德里报道，印度战略石油储备有限公司（Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Ltd）首席执行官表示，印度希望在三至四个月内招标，以向印度南部的一个储存设施注入1900万桶石油。
该公司首席执行官Hhu Ahuja表示，该公司将邀请南部卡纳塔克邦Padur战略石油储备的原油投标，该储备可容纳250万吨石油。
Padur工厂距离海岸约5公里（3英里），距离芒格洛儿炼油和石化有限公司的炼油厂40公里。
印度在南部的三个地点拥有战略石油储存设施，总产能为533万吨。
李方征 编译自 路透社
原文如下：
India hopes to invite bids to fill south Indian oil storage
India hopes to invite bids in three to four months to fill a storage facility in southern India with 19 million barrels of oil, the chief executive of Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Ltd said.
The company will be inviting bids for crude for the Padur strategic petroleum reserve in the southern state of Karnataka which can hold 2.5 million tonnes of oil, Chief Executive H.P.S. Ahuja said.
The Padur site located is about 5 km (3 miles) from the coast and 40 km from Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd’s refinery.
India has strategic petroleum storage facilities at three locations in southern India with a combined capacity of 5.33 million tonnes.
