据路透社新加坡2月22日消息，亚洲最大的石油消费国们正向该地区大量出口成品油，因为在需求增长放缓的背景下，炼油产量超过了消费量，给行业利润带来了压力。
自2006年以来，在传统工业消费国韩国和日本以及正在崛起的经济强国中国和印度的推动下，亚太地区一直是全球最大的石油消费国。然而，炼油厂过度建设和目前需求增长缓慢，已导致这些需求中心的成品油出口大幅增长。
成品油出口激增，加之今年迄今原油价格飙升25%，导致亚洲基准的新加坡炼油厂利润率从2017年年中的逾11美元/桶降至当前的仅高于2美元/桶。
唐绍红 摘译自 路透社
原文如下：
Asia's surging fuel exports depress refining industry profits
Asia’s biggest oil consumers are flooding the region with fuel as refining output is exceeding consumption amid a slowdown in demand growth, pressuring industry profits.
Since 2006, the Asia-Pacific has been the world’s biggest oil consuming region, led by traditional industrial users South Korea and Japan along with rising economic powerhouses China and India.Yet overbuilding of refineries and currently sluggish demand growth have caused a jump in fuel exports from these demand hubs.
The surge in fuel exports combined with a 25 percent jump in crude oil prices so far this year has collapsed Singapore refinery margins, the Asian benchmark, from more than $11 per barrel in mid-2017 to just over $2.
