石油圈中國石化新聞網訊 據路透社新加坡9月27日消息，印度一位高級煉油官員周三表示，2040年前印度需要將煉油產能擴大一倍才能滿足日益增長的燃料需求，因為逐漸擴大的中產階級將購買更多的乘用車，同時印度經濟也正在快速增長。
印度石油公司（IOC）負責業務的執行董事Shrikant Madhav Vaidya表示，到2040年印度煉油能力必須從當前的約2.3億噸/年提高至4.65億噸/年，新增煉油能力方面的投資已經在進行。
Vaidya在新加坡召開的標準普爾全球普氏能源資訊亞太石化大會上表示，印度燃料需求增長的主要動力將來自于乘用車銷售量繼續強勁增長、液化石油氣（LPG）替代烹飪燃料、城鎮化進程以及該國基礎設施和消費品需求的不斷增長。
Vaidya表示：“印度經濟正在快速發展，未來幾十年，石油將繼續主導印度道路燃料?！?br />
他補充道，交通燃料占據印度這個全球第三大石油消費國燃料需求的比重將從當前的約40%提升至2040年時的55%，這將成為印度燃料需求增長的主要驅動力。
他表示：“印度是全球僅次于中國的第二大人口國，我們每一個人都希望擁有自己的汽車?！?br />
Vaidya在大會間隙告訴路透社，從短期來看，明年印度汽油需求將繼續增長約9%，與今年的增速相同。
龐曉華 摘譯自 路透社
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原文如下：
India needs to double refining capacity by 2040 to meet fuel demand growth
9/27/2017
SINGAPORE (Reuters) — India needs to double its refining capacity by 2040 to meet rising fuel demand as an expanding middle class buys more passenger vehicles and its economy grows, a top refinery official said on Wednesday.
India’s refining capacity must increase to 465 MMt by 2040, from about 230 MMt currently, and investments are already being made, said Shrikant Madhav Vaidya, Indian Oil Corp’s executive director of operations.
The major drivers for India’s fuel demand growth will be the continued robust sales of passenger vehicles, substitution of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as a cooking fuel, growing urbanization and the country’s demand for infrastructure and consumer goods, he told the S&P Global Platts APPEC conference in Singapore.
“It’s a very robust economy which is developing very fast and …oil will continue to be the dominant force of the transportation fuels in the years and decades to come,” said Vaidya from the country’s top refiner.
Transport fuels, which currently make up about 40% of fuel demand in the world’s third-biggest oil consumer, will increase that share to 55% by 2040, becoming the main driver of growth, he added.
“This is the aspirational population we have in India where everyone wants to own a vehicle or own a car,” he said.
In the short term, India’s gasoline demand is expected to continue to grow at about 9% next year, similar to this year’s growth, Vaidya told Reuters on the sidelines of the conference.
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