据路透社新德里10月17日消息，印度战略石油储备公司首席执行长H.P.S. Ahuja表示，印度希望在未来3-4个月时间里采取招标的方式购买1900万桶石油来填充印度南部的一处战略石油存储设施。
H.P.S. Ahuja表示，公司将采取招标的方式购买原油来填充位于印度南部卡纳塔克邦的Padur战略石油储备，该存储设施可以存储250万吨石油。
Padur战略石油储备中心距离海岸约约5公里（3英里），与芒格洛尔炼油和石化公司的炼油厂距离40公里。
印度当前在南部地区的三个地方拥有战略石油存储设施，总存储能力为533万吨。
张春晓摘译自 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.
