据世界石油网6月24日伦敦报道，世界最大独立石油贸易商维多公司(Vitol)的一名高级官员表示，维多公司日前已开始在其在马来西亚的储存终端建造一座小型炼油厂，为船舶提供低硫燃料。
维多亚洲公司总裁兼首席执行官Kho Hui Meng表示，这个项目包括一个原油蒸馏装置，这个装置每天可加工3万桶原油，与维多公司位于马来西亚南部柔佛州丹戎宾的储存终端位于同一地点。
他在出席亚洲油气会议间隙对采访他的媒体记者表示，中国石油天然气集团公司旗下的一个建设单位将负责这个项目，其中包括把一个二手原油蒸馏装置从中国运到现场。
Kho表示，这个项目预计将在2020年5月完工，并将扩大维多公司在阿联酋富查伊拉的炼油厂，为船舶提供低硫燃料油。
根据国际海事组织的要求，全球航运业将从2020年开始改用含硫量不超过0.5%的船用燃料油，低于目前的3.5%。
为了满足日益增长的需求，德国的Uniper和阿拉伯联合酋长国的Brooge油气投资公司 (BPGIC)等公司要么在扩建现有炼油厂，要么在阿联酋东海岸的船舶加油枢纽富查伊拉新建炼油厂。
Kho称，马来西亚新炼油厂将能够加工市场上多种低硫原油，包括维多公司贸易的美国西德克萨斯中质原油。
他表示，由于亚洲地区目前的低硫燃料库存将在明年年中之前消耗殆尽，因此，维多公司新炼油厂的低硫燃料生产将及时满足不断增长的需求。
各大石油公司和贸易公司时下都在囤积低硫燃料油，预计到2020年低硫燃料油需求将激增。
李峻 编译自 世界石油
原文如下：
World's largest oil trader building refinery to meet new low-sulfur rules
6/24/2019
World Oil
London
Vitol, the world’s largest independent oil trader, has started building a small oil refinery at its storage terminal in Malaysia that will provide low-sulfur fuel for ships, a senior company official said.
The project consists of a crude distillation unit that can process 30,000 barrels per day of crude and is located on the same site as Vitol’s oil storage terminal at Tanjung Bin in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, Vitol Asia’s President and Chief Executive Officer Kho Hui Meng said.
A construction unit under China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) is handling the project which will involve moving a second-hand CDU from China to the site, he said on the sidelines of the Asia Oil & Gas Conference.
The project is expected to be completed in May 2020 and will augment Vitol’s refinery in Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates in providing low-sulfur fuel oil for ships, Kho said.
The global shipping industry will switch to marine fuel, known as bunker fuel, containing 0.5% sulfur or less from the start of 2020, down from the current 3.5%, as mandated by the International Maritime Organization.
Companies such as Germany’s Uniper and the United Arab Emirates’ Brooge Petroleum and Gas Investment Co (BPGIC) are either expanding their plants or building a new refinery in Fujairah, a ship refueling hub on the east coast of the UAE, to meet rising demand.
The new Malaysian refinery will be able to process a wide variety of low-sulfur oil available in the market including U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude that Vitol trades in, Kho said.
Production of low-sulfur fuel from Vitol’s new refining unit will be just in time to meet rising demand as current stockpiles of such fuel in the region would have been drawn down by the middle of next year, he said.
Major oil companies and trading houses are stocking up low-sulfur bunker fuels in anticipation of a surge in demand for the fuel in 2020.
