据烃加工在线7月5日消息称，印度国营的曼格洛尔炼油和石化有限公司（MRPL）总经理M. Venkatesh表示，该公司通过10月中旬交货的投标，首次购买了美国生产的雷马原油。
Venkatesh表示：“提供的价格非常具有竞争力。”他说，这家国有炼油企业订购了100万桶含硫原油。
MRPL曾是伊朗在印度的第二大石油客户，目前在印度南部卡纳塔克邦经营着一家日产量30万桶的沿海炼油厂。Venkatesh告诉路透社，雷马原油交易是该公司继2018年2月收到一批高硫南部绿色峡谷石油之后第二次购买美国石油。
一位业内人士表示，MRPL已于周四晚些时候向英国石油下了订单。
与此同时，MRPL的文卡特什表示，卡纳塔克邦炼油厂的所有设备目前都在正常运转。5月初，由于水资源短缺，卡纳塔克邦炼油厂减少了原油加工。
他表示:“炼油厂的产能几乎达到了峰值。”
曹海斌 摘译自 烃加工在线
原文如下：
India's MRPL buys its 1st U.S. Thunder Horse oil
India’s state-run Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) has made its first purchase of U.S.-produced Thunder Horse crude oil via a tender for mid-October delivery, its managing director M. Venkatesh said.
“The price offered was very competitive,” Venkatesh said. The state-run refiner placed an order to buy 1 million barrels of the sour oil, he said.
MRPL, which used to be Iran’s second-biggest Indian oil client, operates a 300,000 barrels per day coastal refinery in the southern Karnataka state. Venkatesh told Reuters the Thunder Horse deal is the firm’s second purchase of U.S. oil following a shipment of high-sulphur Southern Green Canyon oil received in February 2018.
An industry source said MRPL has placed its order with BP late Meanwhile MRPL’s Venkatesh said all units are now operating normally at the Karnataka refinery, where crude processing was curtailed due to water shortages in early May.
“The refinery is operating at almost peak capacity,” he said.
