據7月6日Oil Monster消息：貿易人士稱，自沙特阿美貿易公司(ATC)與馬來西亞國家石油公司(Petronas)的合資煉油廠在3月發生火災后關閉以來，該公司已出售了在馬來西亞持有的近1,000萬桶原油。

在石油輸出國組織及其盟國（包括俄羅斯）將石油產量削減至創紀錄的每天970萬桶之后，ATC的原油銷售價格因現貨需求和供應趨緊后上漲。

亞洲煉油廠通常提前兩個月購買原油，因此蓬格朗煉油廠提前預訂的無法加工的原油必須儲存在油罐和船舶中。

消息人士稱，沙特阿美公司的貿易機構ATC于7月通過船對船轉運方式在馬來西亞的林吉港出售了不同等級的貨物，包括沙特阿拉伯Extra Light，阿布扎比的Murban，尼日利亞的Agbami和阿塞拜疆的Azeri Light。買家包括北亞煉油廠，石油巨頭和歐洲貿易公司。

因為受火災影響的柴油加氫處理裝置正在進行維修，合資伙伴尚未決定何時重啟彭格朗煉油廠。

這家日產30萬桶的煉油廠在2019年4月其大氣殘渣脫硫裝置(ARDS)發生火災后停工，停工前主要處理的是低硫原油。

該裝置從燃油中去除硫，然后用于生產汽油，計劃在2020年中期恢復運行。

馮娟 摘譯自 Oil Monster

原文如下：

Aramco Trading Sells Crude from Malaysia as Refinery Remains Shut

Aramco Trading Co (ATC), has sold close to 10 million barrels of crude oil it held around Malaysia since its joint venture refinery with Petronas was shut in March following a fire, four trade sources said.

ATC’s crude sales come as spot demand and prices have improved on tighter supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies including Russia cut output by a record 9.7 million barrels per day (bpd).

A fire killed five people in March at the Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Malaysia’s southern state of Johor, forcing the closure of the facility that was set to begin full commercial operations this year.

Asian refiners typically purchase crude two months ahead so supplies for the Pengerang refinery that were booked earlier and could not be processed had to be stored in tanks and ships, the sources said.

ATC, trading arm of Saudi Aramco, has sold various grades - including Saudi Arab Extra Light, Murban from Abu Dhabi, Agbami from Nigeria and Azeri Light from Azerbaijan - through tenders for July loading via ship-to-ship transfer at Malaysia’s Linggi port, the sources said.

Buyers include north Asian refiners, oil majors and European trading companies, the sources said.

Saudi Aramco and Petronas [PETR.UL] did not respond to requests for comment.

“Those (cargoes) are from floating storage which could not be discharged,” one of the sources said. The joint venture partners have not decided when they will restart the Pengerang refinery as repairs at the fire-hit diesel hydrotreating unit are ongoing, he said.

Before the shutdown, the 300,000-bpd refinery had been processing mainly sweet crude after an earlier fire at its atmospheric residue desulphurisation unit (ARDS) in April 2019.

The unit removes sulphur from fuel oil, which is then used to produce gasoline, and had been scheduled to resume operation by mid-2020.