中国石化新闻网讯 据油价网2022年10月25日报道，美国主要炼油商瓦莱罗能源公司首席执行官Joe Gorder周二说，美国能源高管日前告诉美国能源部长，已关闭的原油精炼厂将不会重新启动。
路透社周二报道称，最近在白宫举行的一次能源高管会议上，能源高管们向美国能源部长发表了上述言论。
Gorder说：“这次会议还发生了一件有趣的事情，那就是考虑重新启动已被关闭的炼油产能的能力，而我看到能源高管们普遍认为这是不会发生的。”
美国有限的炼油厂产能——或许更关键的是，在美国特定地理区域的炼油厂产能，也就是所谓的PADDs——让美国不必担心高油价和能源安全。
根据美国能源信息署(EIA)日前发表的《石油状况周报》，今年夏天大部分时间，美国炼油厂的开工率都在90%以上。
今年6月，雪佛龙公司首席执行官迈克·沃思说：“建造一座新的炼油厂是一次数十亿美元的投资。这可能需要十年的时间。自20世纪70年代以来，我们在美国就没有建过新的炼油厂。我个人的观点是，美国永远不会再建一个新炼油厂了。”
沃思补充道，“在世界各国政府都在说‘我们不希望这些产品在未来被使用’的政策环境下，石油和天然气公司将不得不权衡投入10年的资金来为股东提供回报的好处”。
EIA公布的最新数据显示，截至10月14日当周，美国炼油厂的开工率为它们可操作产能的89.5%。
李峻 编译自 油价网
原文如下：
Energy Execs Tell Granholm Shuttered U.S. Oil Refineries Won’t Restart
U.S. energy executives told Jennifer Granholm that shuttered crude oil refineries won’t restart, Valero’s Chief Executive Joe Gorder said>The comments were made to the U.S. Energy Secretary at a recent White House meeting with energy executives, Reuters reported>“The>Limited U.S. refinery capacity—and perhaps more critically, refinery capacity in specific U.S. geographic areas, known as PADDs—has spared worry in the United States over high gasoline prices and energy security.
US refinery run rates were north of 90% for much of the summer, according to the EIA’s Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
Shuttered refineries unlikely to start back up are the latest nail in the U.S. refinery coffin. In June, Chevron CEO Mike Wirth posited that there would never be another new refinery built in the United States.
“Building a refinery is a multi-billion dollar investment. It may take a decade. We haven’t had a refinery built in the United States since the 1970s. My personal view is that there will never be another refinery built in the United States,” Wirth said at the time.
Oil and gas companies would have to weigh the benefits of committing capital ten years out that will need decades to offer a return to shareholders “in a policy environment where governments around the world are saying ‘we don’t want these products to be used in the future,’” Wirth added.
Refinery utilization in the United States for the week ending October 14 was 89.5% of their operable capacity, the most recent EIA data shows.
