中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社11月11日消息，印度最大的炼油商印度石油公司的一位高管表示，到2040年，印度每年的石化产品消费量将增加近两倍，达到8000万吨，这迫使该国要么增加石化产品的进口，要么投资新建石化产品生产设施。
印度石油公司负责石化业务的执行董事A. S. Sahney在11月10日召开的一次会议上表示，人口增长、社会发展和经济扩张将增加石化产品需求，或者说这些基本上是石化产品需求增加的驱动因素。
作为亚洲第三大经济体，印度当前每年消耗2500万吨至3000万吨的石化产品。印度石化产品的人均消费量约为全球平均水平的三分之一。
印度炼油商们传统上专注于最大限度地提高汽油和柴油的产量。印度是石化产品的净进口国。
印度炼油商们正投资数十亿美元提高石化产能，以对冲传统燃料长期需求增长放缓的风险。
Sahney表示：“随着汽油和柴油需求的下降，我们必须找到生产石化产品的方法。否则，我们将面临炼油厂在非最佳或次最佳条件下运行的局面。”
庞晓华 摘译自 路透社
原文如下：
Indian petrochemical demand could rise threefold by 2040
India's annual petrochemical consumption could nearly triple to 80 MMt by 2040 forcing the country to either raise imports or invest into building new facilities, said an executive at the nation's top refiner Indian Oil Corp.
Population growth, development, and economic expansion "are going to increase the demand or these are the drivers basically for increased petrochemicals demand," A. S. Sahney, executive director for petrochemicals at IOC, said at a conference>India, Asia's third-largest economy, annually consumes 25 MM to 30 MMt of petrochemicals. Its per capita consumption is about a third of global average.
Indian refiners have traditionally focused>Companies are investing billions of dollars to boost their petrochemical capacity to hedge against expected slow demand growth for conventional fuels in the long run.
"As the demand for gasoline and diesel goes down, we have to find ways of making petrochemicals. Otherwise, we will be in a situation where the refineries will be running at non-optimal or sub-optimal conditions," he said.
