據(jù)油價網(wǎng)2023年1月10日報道，一名消息人士周二對路透社記者表示，位于巴格達南部的新建卡爾巴拉煉油廠預計在今年7月前將達到每日14萬桶的滿負荷運轉(zhuǎn)產(chǎn)能。

伊拉克石油部長Hayan Abdel Ghani日前表示，新建卡爾巴拉煉油廠預計將在3月中旬開始商業(yè)燃料生產(chǎn)，這個煉油廠估計建造費用略高于60億美元。

這名消息人士向路透社記者透露卡爾巴拉煉油廠將以60%的產(chǎn)能進行試運行。

卡爾巴拉煉油廠是伊拉克幾十年來新建的第一座煉油廠，旨在生產(chǎn)汽油、液化石油氣、航空燃料、汽油、燃料油和瀝青。據(jù)阿格斯報道，卡爾巴拉煉油廠生產(chǎn)的燃料將幫助伊拉克將其精制石油產(chǎn)品進口減少大約60%。

這名消息人士對路透社記者表示，新建卡爾巴拉煉油廠預計不會影響伊拉克的原油出口，因為歐佩克第二大產(chǎn)油國可能會提高原油產(chǎn)量或削減其他煉油廠的原油加工量。

路透社看到的伊拉克國有石油市場營銷組織（SOMO）公布的統(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)顯示，去年12月伊拉克南部港口巴士拉港的原油平均日出口量為324萬桶。

伊拉克是歐佩克中僅次于沙特阿拉伯的第二大產(chǎn)油國，該國石油部不久前公布的統(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)顯示，伊拉克2023年的石油收入將超過1150億美元。這一數(shù)字源于去年原油出口量為12.09億桶，或日均333.2萬桶。

作為歐佩克第二大原油生產(chǎn)國，伊拉克去年第三季度的原油日產(chǎn)量為450萬桶，伊拉克幾乎所有的出口收入都依賴石油出口。

根據(jù)Al-Monitor公布的統(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)，原油價格下跌，伊拉克的石油收入在2020年下降至僅420億美元。2021年，伊拉克的石油收入反彈至756億美元。

伊拉克是世界上第5大探明石油儲量擁有國，伊拉克擁有1450億桶探明石油儲量。

李峻 編譯自 油價網(wǎng)

原文如下：

Iraq’s First New Refinery In Decades Set To Hit Full Capacity By July

The new Karbala refinery south of Baghdad is expected to reach full 140,000 barrels per day (bpd) capacity by July this year, a source at the facility told Reuters on Tuesday.

The Karbala refinery, estimated to have cost just over $6 billion, is expected to begin commercial production of fuels in the middle of March, Iraqi Oil Minister Hayan Abdel Ghani said this weekend.  

The start of production will see the refinery doing test runs at 60% of capacity, according to the source who spoke to Reuters.

Karbala, Iraq’s first new refinery in decades, is designed to produce gasoline, LPG, jet fuel, gasoil, fuel oil, and asphalt. According to Argus, the fuels from the facility will help Iraq cut its refined product imports by an estimated 60%.

The new refinery is not expected to affect Iraq’s crude oil exports as OPEC’s second-biggest producer could either raise its oil production or cut processing rates at other refineries, the source told Reuters.  

Iraq’s exports from the southern port of Basra averaged 3.24 million bpd in December, per data from state-owned marketer SOMO seen by Reuters.

Iraq, OPEC’s second-largest producer behind Saudi Arabia, raked in more than $115 billion in oil revenues in 2023, according to figures released by the country’s oil ministry last week. That figure stems from crude oil exports of 1.209 billion barrels last year—or an average of 3.320 million bpd.

As OPEC’s second-largest crude oil producer, producing 4.5 million bpd in Q3, Iraq relies on oil revenues for nearly all of its export income.

Iraq’s oil revenues fell in 2020 to just $42 billion, according to Al-Monitor，tanking crude oil prices. In 2021, Iraq’s oil revenues rebounded to $75.6 billion.

Iraq is home to the world’s fifth-largest proven oil reserves, holding 145 billion barrels.