墨西哥将在三年内实现汽油自给自足

据路透社墨西哥城报道， 墨西哥总统安德烈斯·曼纽尔·洛佩兹·奥夫拉多尔周五表示，一旦计划建造的一家大型新炼油厂完工，墨西哥将在三年内实现汽油自给自足。

洛佩兹·奥夫拉多尔在例行的晨间新闻发布会上对记者表示：“我们将在2022年5月实现汽油生产的自给自足。”

周四，政府拒绝了私人企业的投标，随后，国营石油公司墨西哥国家石油公司（墨国油/Pemex）将负责建造新的Dos Bocas炼油厂，该工厂将于2022年5月完工。

许多石油行业分析师认为，炼油厂的三年时间框架是乐观的，但总统在他的新闻发布会上把目标降低了一倍。

近年来，墨西哥日益依赖主要来自美国的燃料进口，墨国油的国内炼油厂由于长期存在的问题（包括延期维修和长期事故）而减产，迫使该公司去年每天进口近60万桶石油。

墨国油在2018年平均每天生产约207000桶汽油。

洛佩兹·奥夫拉多尔承诺使墨西哥不再依赖燃料进口，并在国内生产更多的燃料。他称，Dos Bocas炼油厂的原油加工能力将达到30万桶/日。

政府高级官员此前曾表示，该炼油厂将能够处理34万桶/日。目前还不清楚总统是否正在修改炼油厂的计划产能，还是四舍五入的数据。

詹晓晶 摘自 路透社

原文如下：

Mexico will produce all its own gasoline in three years: president

Mexico will be self sufficient in its gasoline needs in three years, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday, once a major new refinery he wants to build is due to be completed.

“We’re going to be self-sufficient in the production of gasoline in May of 2022,” Lopez Obrador told reporters during his regular morning news conference.

Construction of the new Dos Bocas refinery, which state oil company Pemex will oversee after the government on Thursday turned down bids by private firms for the job, is also due to be completed by May 2022.

Many oil industry analysts believe a three-year time frame for the refinery is optimistic, but the president doubled down on the target during his news conference.

Mexico has grown increasingly dependent on mostly U.S. fuel imports in recent years as Pemex’s domestic refineries have produced less due to longstanding problems including deferred maintenance and chronic accidents, forcing the firm to import nearly 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) last year.

Pemex produced an average of about 207,000 bpd of gasoline in 2018.

Lopez Obrador is pledging to wean Mexico off of fuel imports and produce more at home.

The president said that the Dos Bocas refinery will have a crude processing capacity of 300,000 bpd.

Senior government officials have previously said that the facility will be able to process 340,000 bpd. It was not immediately clear if the president was revising the refinery’s planned capacity, or rounding figures.