據安迅思新加坡10月8日消息，菲律賓煉油商Petron公司正考慮永久性關閉其位于巴丹半島的一座18萬桶/日的煉油廠，如果政府未能在該行業創造公平競爭環境的話。

10月6日Petron公司首席執行官兼總裁Ramon Ang告訴當地記者:“對于Petron煉油廠來說，如果與政府的談判失敗，我將關閉它。”

10月7日，該公司在向菲律賓證券交易所(PSE)披露時證實了該聲明。

《菲律賓星報》引述Ang的話稱，基于菲律賓現行的稅收制度，進口原油更可行，因為進口商只收一次稅。

另一方面，煉油商在原油和原材料到達時要交一次消費稅，在生產出成品油時又要交一次消費稅。

如果Petron關閉煉油廠，它將效仿殼牌菲律賓公司的做法。8月中旬，殼牌宣布，由于煉油利潤不佳，加之新冠病毒疫情大流行導致的需求破壞，它將永久關閉位于巴坦加斯的Tabango煉油廠，并計劃將該煉油廠改造成一個燃料進口終端。

2020年上半年，Petron公司凈損失了142億菲律賓比索(約合2.98億美元)，由于需求下滑以及原油價格暴跌造成的嚴重庫存損失，銷售收入下挫了40%。

Petron公司在馬來西亞和菲律賓的綜合煉油能力為26.8萬桶/天，生產各種燃料和石化產品。

張春曉 摘譯自 ICIS

原文如下：

Philippines' Petron mulls permanent closure of Bataan refinery

Philippines’ refiner Petron is mulling shutting down its 180,000 bbl/day refinery in Bataan permanently if the government fails to level the playing field in the industry.

“For Petron Refinery, I will close that down if talks with the government will not succeed,” Petron CEO and president Ramon Ang had told local reporters on 6 October.

The statement was confirmed by the company in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) on 7 October.

Importing crude is more viable based on the Philippines’ current tax regime, as importers are taxed only once, Ang was quoted as saying in the news daily Philippine Star.

Refiners, on the other hand, are required to pay excise taxes upon arrival of their crude and raw materials, and on finished products.

If Petron shuts down the refinery, it will follow the course taken by Shell Philippines.

In mid-August, Shell announced that it is permanently closing its Tabango refinery in Batangas, due to poor refining margins and amid pandemic-induced destruction in demand, and plans to convert the site into a fuel import terminal.

Petron incurred a net loss of Philippine peso (Ps) 14.2bn ($298m) in the first half of 2020, with sales plunging 40% on slumping demand as well as heavy inventory losses caused by the plunge in crude oil prices.

The company has a combined refining capacity of 268,000 bbl/day in Malaysia and the Philippines and produces a full range of fuels and petrochemicals.