據今日油價報道，據彭博社消息，截至周一，由于德州冰凍天氣而關閉的18家美國煉油廠中，只有7家恢復正常運營。要知道，被迫關閉的18家煉油廠每天的原油處理能力高達550萬桶。

根據美國能源信息署（EIA）的數據，由于德克薩斯州的冰凍天氣，在截至2月26日的一周內，美國煉油廠可操作產能的周利用率降至56%，這是自1990年11月EIA開始跟蹤該數據以來的最低可操作產能利用率。

EIA數據顯示，盡管原油庫存最終降至五年平均水平，但煉油廠停產阻止了庫存的下降，上周原油庫存激增2200萬桶。

不過，現在的跡象表明石油的利用率在慢慢增加，而原油庫存在減少。

美國最大的煉油廠，Motiva公司60.7萬桶/天的亞瑟港煉油廠，在關閉11天后，于2月26日相對較快地重啟了其最大的原油加工部門。

截至周日，埃克森美孚Baytown煉油廠計劃重啟日產量28.03萬桶的pipejorl -8原油蒸餾裝置，馬拉松（Marathon）也重啟了位于Galveston Bay大型煉油廠的原油蒸餾裝置。

周一，道達爾的亞瑟港煉油廠CDU計劃重啟。彭博社報道稱，本周還將有更多煉油廠上線。

其他報告顯示，殼牌31.8萬桶/天的Deer Park煉油廠可能要到4月份才會開工。

德克薩斯州的寒流給美國石油行業造成了許多問題，斷電、管道和道路凍結導致美國石油和天然氣生產大量關閉，煉油廠的關閉數量超過了2017年哈維颶風造成的關閉數量。

王佳晶 摘譯自 今日油價

原文如下：

U.S. Oil Refineries Still Down And Out After Freeze

Just seven U.S. oil refineries out of the 18 that were down due to the Texas Freeze are operating normally as of Monday, according to Bloomberg.

Those 18 refineries that were down accounted for as much as 5.5 million barrels of crude processing capacity per day.

As a result of the Texas Freeze, according to Energy Information Administration data, weekly U.S. percent utilization of refinery operable capacity dipped to 56% during the week ending February 26—the lowest operable utilization of operable capacity since the EIA began tracking the data in November 1990.

And while crude oil inventories had finally fallen to the five-year average before the Freeze, the refinery outages stopped the inventory drawdowns in their tracks, and crude oil stocks ballooned by 22 million barrels last week, according to the EIA.

But all signs point to this utilization increasing—and crude stocks decreasing.

The largest refinery in the United States, Motiva’s 607,000 bpd Port Arthur refinery, restarted its largest crude oil processing unit relatively quickly, on February 26, after being down for 11 days.

As of Sunday, ExxonMobil’s Baytown refinery was set to restart its 280,300 bpd Pipestill-8 crude distillation unit, and Marathon restarted its crude distillation unit at its large Galveston Bay refinery.

On Monday, Total’s Port Arthur refinery CDU was scheduled to restart.

And more refineries are set to come online yet this week, Bloomberg reports.

Other reports suggested that Shell’s 318,000 bpd Deer Park refinery could be down until April.

The cold snap in Texas caused widespread issues for the U.S. oil industry, with power outages, frozen pipes and roads shutting in a large volume of U.S. oil and natural gas production, in addition to refinery closures that exceeded what Hurricane Harvey forced shut in 2017.