据油价网8月20日消息称，印度官员周五告诉《印度斯坦时报》，印度西北部拉贾斯坦邦的石油和天然气产量在过去两年里下降了40%，主要是受疫情及其对石油需求和价格的影响。拉贾斯坦邦是印度最大的石油和天然气储量所在地。
随着石油和天然气产量的下降，拉贾斯坦邦去年的油气收入也出现了下降。
巴默附近地区是印度国内石油和天然气的最大来源，2004年在那里发现了原油和煤炭。
尽管受新冠肺炎疫情的影响，印度企业并没有放弃对巴默地区新生产的投资。一位官员对《印度斯坦时报》表示，例如，国有控股的印度石油公司将投资于石油和天然气勘探。
与此同时，印度的燃料需求正在从春季的新冠疫情中复苏，截至8月中旬，尽管亚洲其他地区的需求前景更为黯淡，但印度的燃料需求仍保持了稳定。
印度的燃料消费复苏是8月上半月一个罕见的亮点数据，而日本和东南亚正在通过封锁和紧急措施努力遏制新冠疫情的复苏，这可能会降低成品油需求。
彭博社周二援引印度三大燃料零售商的初步数据报道称，与2019年疫情前同期相比，印度8月前两周的汽油销售增长了3.7%。根据彭博社获得的数据，柴油是印度最常用的燃料，与2019年相比，柴油的销量下降了8%，但仍高于2021年7月，当时柴油消费量下降了11%。
曹海斌 摘译自 油价网
原文如下：
Production Slumps By 40% At India’s Biggest Oil, Gas Deposit
Oil and gas production from India’s northwestern state of Rajasthan—home to the country’s single biggest oil and gas deposit—has slumped by 40 percent over the past two years, mostly due to the pandemic and its effect align="justify"> Alongside with lower production of oil and gas, the state of Rajasthan saw its revenues from hydrocarbon production decline last year.
The area around Barmer is the biggest source of domestic oil and natural gas for India after crude oil and coal were discovered there in 2004.
Despite the COVID-induced slump, Indian companies haven’t given up align="justify"> Meanwhile, India’s fuel demand is recovering from the COVID wave in the spring, and as of mid-August, it was holding up despite the gloomier demand picture in the rest of Asia.
India’s fuel consumption recovery was a rare bright data point in the first half of August, while Japan, and Southeast Asia are struggling to contain a COVID resurgence with lockdowns and emergency measures that threaten to reduce immediate refined product demand.
India’s gasoline sales rose by 3.7 percent in the first two weeks of August compared to the same period of the pre-pandemic 2019, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing preliminary data from the three largest fuel retailers in the country. Sales of diesel—the most used fuel in India—were down by 8 percent compared to 2019, but still higher than in July 2021, when diesel consumption had declined by 11 percent, according to the data obtained by Bloomberg.
