BP将其美国炼厂运行率降低到80-85%

据今日油价4月9日报道，路透社(Reuters)周四援引知情人士的话称，燃料需求因封锁和居家的命令逐渐减少，成品油有限的存储空间迫使英国石油公司将其在美国的三大炼油厂的运行率降低到80-85%。

据消息人士上周对路透社表示，由于美国消费需求低迷，英国石油已降低了其在印第安纳州惠廷日产43万桶的炼油厂，华盛顿日产24.2万桶的Cherry Point炼油厂和俄亥俄州托莱多日产15.5万桶的炼油厂的运行率。

今年3月底，美国各州开始采取措施应对冠状病毒流行疫情，石油巨头们开始降低全美的炼油厂运行率。据熟知美国石油巨头埃克森美孚（ExxonMobil）位于路易斯安那州巴吞鲁日日产50.25万桶的第二大炼油厂运营的知情人士告诉路由社，埃克森美孚已降低该炼油厂的运行率。

尽管汽油价格低廉，但随着各国应对疫情影响，人们被要求或命令呆在家中，因此美国和世界各地对燃料的需求受到了严重打击。 因城市正处于封锁中，非必要的业务和服务关闭，人们被要求尽可能在家中工作，在接下来的几周内，美国的石油需求将持续下降。

与此同时，美国的汽油库存随着原油库存的增加而继续攀升。 EIA周三表示，根据截至4月3日的最新报告显示，美国石油库存激增1,520万桶，此前一周是自2016年以来最大的石油库存增长。EIA还报告汽油库存增加1,050万桶， 馏分燃料库存增加47.6万桶。 而前一周的汽油库存增加750万桶，馏分燃料的库存则减少220万桶。

郝芬 译自 今日油价

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BP’s U.S. Refineries Cut Run Rates As Demand Crumbles

Limited storage for refined products has forced BP to cut the refinery rates at its three largest refineries in the United States to 80-85 percent as fuel demand is crumbling amid lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, Reuters reported on Thursday, quoting sources with knowledge of the refinery operations.

Sources told Reuters last week that BP has reduced refinery run rates at its 430,000-bpd refinery in Whiting, Indiana, the 242,000-bpd Cherry Point, Washington, refinery, and the 155,000-bpd in Toledo, Ohio, refinery, due to low demand from U.S. consumers.

Oil majors began to reduce refinery run rates across the U.S. at the end of March when states began to take measures to flatten the curve for the number of coronavirus cases. U.S. oil supermajor ExxonMobil has reduced the run rates at its second-largest refinery in the United States, Baton Rouge in Louisiana, after slumping fuel demand filled storage tanks, sources with knowledge of the operations at the 502,500-bpd refinery told Reuters last month.

Despite the low gasoline prices, demand for fuel in the United States, and across the world, is taking a major hit as people are asked or ordered to stay at home as countries grapple with the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Oil demand in the United States is set to tumble over the following weeks, as cities are under lockdown, non-essential businesses and services are closed, and people are asked to work from home wherever possible.

Meanwhile, gasoline inventories in the United States continue to climb, along with crude oil inventory builds. During the latest reporting week, to April 3, U.S. oil inventories swelled by 15.2 million barrels, the EIA said on Wednesday, a week after reporting the largest oil inventory build since 2016. The EIA also reported gasoline inventories had increased by 10.5 million barrels and distillate fuel inventories had added 476,000 barrels. This compared with a gasoline inventory increase of 7.5 million barrels for the previous week and a distillate fuel inventory fall of 2.2 million barrels.