中国石化新闻网讯 据彭博社5月27日报道，由于中东石油供应商提供大幅折扣，印度大型炼油商们仍坚持从中东进口石油，这表明，其他地区的石油生产商们很难进入这个全球第三大原油进口国的市场。

印度石油公司(Indian oil Corp.)董事长桑吉夫?辛格(Sanjiv Singh)在接受采访时表示，沙特阿拉伯等海湾产油国最近一直在以非常有吸引力的价格提供货物。上个月，在全球产油国价格战最激烈的时候，沙特阿美向亚洲买家提供了10多年来最优惠的原油价格。

中东供应商的激进定价可能使美国、尼日利亚、墨西哥和俄罗斯等生产商更难在印度赢得更多市场份额。由于来自波斯湾国家的进口下降，这四家生产商去年向印度出售的原油都高于2018年，其中，美国的供应量几乎翻了一番。

辛格补充道，目前汽油销量约为去年平均水平的一半，而柴油销量为60%。在印度石油需求崩溃的高峰期，汽油和柴油的消费量仅为2019年的30%-35%。他预计，在10月即今年第四季度之前，总体需求不会回升。

王佳晶 摘译自 彭博社

原文如下：

Middle Eastern Oil’s Still a Favorite for India’s No. 1 Refiner

India’s biggest refiner is sticking to Middle Eastern oil as suppliers offer deep discounts, suggesting rival producers may have a harder time making inroads in the world’s third-largest crude importer.

Gulf producers such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia -- which together supplied around 40% of India’s oil imports last year -- have been offering cargoes at very attractive prices recently, Sanjiv Singh, chairman of Indian Oil Corp., said in an interview. Marketers SOMO and Aramco offered Asian buyers crude at steepest discounts in more than a decade last month at the height of a price war between global producers.

The aggressive pricing from Middle Eastern suppliers may make it harder for producers such as the U.S., Nigeria, Mexico and Russia to win even more market share in India. All four producers sold more crude to the nation last year than they did in 2018, with American supplies almost doubling, as imports from the Persian Gulf nations fell.

Gasoline sales are currently running at about half of last year’s average, while diesel is at 60%, according to Singh. At the peak of oil demand destruction in India, consumption of gasoline and diesel fell to 30%-35% of 2019 levels, he added. The IOC chairman said he doesn’t expect overall demand to start picking up until the quarter starting October.