据12月11日oil monster消息：印度最大炼油商印度石油公司在一份声明中表示，为满足当地不断增长的燃料需求，共有9家工厂的产能自2月以来首次达到100%。
印度燃料需求已经从4月份的低点回升，随着封锁解除工业和经济活动逐渐恢复。
与印度子公司钦奈石油公司一起，印度石油公司控制着印度每天500万桶炼油能力的三分之一，该国10月燃料需求增长2.5％，为8个月来首次同比增长。
印度石油公司表示，该国当地的燃料需求几乎达到了疫情前水平。去年10月炼厂开工率约为88%，11月为99%。
该公司懂事长SM Vaidya说：“随着冠状病毒疫苗的推出，经济基本面强劲，我们看到石油产品的整体消费出现了快速的V形复苏。”
印度石油公司也是该国最大的燃料零售商，11月销售了106万吨汽油，比去年同期增长4%，而烹饪用燃气的销售增长约1.4%，达到109万吨。
不过，该公司上个月的柴油销量较上年同期下降9%，同时由于航空旅行限制措施的继续实施，航空燃油销量下降约45%。11月柴油和航空燃料的销量较10月分别增长2%和4%。
冯娟 摘译自 oil monster
原文如下：
India’s Top Oil Refiner is Back at Full Capacity for First Time Since COVID-19
Indian Oil Corp, the country’s top refiner, operated of its 9 plants in November at 100% capacity for the first time since February, to meet rising local fuel demand, it said in a statement IOC previously operated its directly-owned plants at full capacity ahead of a nationwide lockdown enforced from late March to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
India’s fuel demand has been recovering from the lows seen in April with a gradual pick up in the industrial and economic activity after the lockdown was eased.
Along with its subsidiary Chennai Petroleum Corp, IOC controls about a third of the 5 million barrels per day refining capacity in India, where fuel demand in October rose by 2.5%, its first year-on-year rise in eight months.
Local fuel demand - a proxy for oil consumption - in India has almost reached pre-COVID levels, IOC said.
The refiner operated its plants at about 88% in October and at 99% in November last year, it said.
“As we get closer to the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, the fundamentals of the economy being strong, we see a rapid V-shaped recovery in the overall consumption of petroleum products,” said S.M. Vaidya, chairman of IOC.
“All our project sites too are witnessing a revival in terms of construction activities,” he said.
IOC, also the country’s largest fuel retailer, in November sold 1.06 million tonnes of gasoline, 4% higher than same month last year, and sales of cooking gas rose by about 1.4% to 1.09 million tonnes.
However, the company’s diesel sales last month were 9% lower that previous year, while jet fuel was down by about 45% as air travel restrictions continued. Sales of diesel and jet fuel in November rose by 2% and 4% from October.
