据经济时报2月20日消息：由于工业和经济活动逐步增加，燃料需求有所改善，印度1月原油加工业务连续第二个月同比增长，同时触及一年多以来的高点。
政府临时数据显示，1月原油吞吐量同比增长0.6%，至516万桶/天(2181万吨)，为2019年11月以来的最高水平。环比增长3.8%。
一项私人调查显示，在需求和产出持续复苏的推动下，印度的工厂活动在1月达到了三个月来的最大增速。
然而，全球油价上涨对需求的逐步复苏构成了障碍。
政府数据显示，1月印度炼油厂的平均产能为102.8%，略高于去年同期的102.6%，也高于去年12月份的99.1%。
通过技术改造，炼油厂可以以高于正常产能的速度运行。
数据显示，印度最大的炼油商印度石油公司(IOC)上月以106.1%的产能运营其直属工厂。
拥有全球最大炼油设施的信实集团1月以96.1%的产能运营其工厂。
国际能源署(IEA)本月早些时候表示，印度将是未来20年能源需求增长的主要驱动力，并将在2030年超过欧盟成为世界第三大能源消费国。
数据显示，该国原油年产量同比下降4.6%，至257万吨(61万桶/天)，而天然气产量下降2.2%，至25.5亿立方米。
冯娟 摘译自 经济时报
原文如下：
India's January crude processing scales over 1-year peak
India's crude oil processing registered its second straight year-on-year gain in January, while hitting a more than one-year high, as fuel demand improved on the back of a gradual increase in industrial and economic activity.
Crude oil throughput in January rose 0.6% year on year to 5.16 million barrels per day (21.81 million tonnes), the highest since November 2019, provisional government data showed on Friday.
Throughput was also up 3.8% from the previous month.
India's factory activity expanded at its strongest pace in three months in January, fuelled by a continued recovery in demand and output, according to a private survey.
However, an uptick in global oil prices posed a roadblock to the gradual recovery in demand.
Indian refiners operated at an average rate of 102.8% in January, slightly up from 102.6% in the same month last year and above December's 99.1%, the government data showed.
Refineries can operate at more than their usual capacity through technical alterations.
The country's largest refiner, Indian Oil Corp (IOC) , last month operated its directly owned plants at 106.1% capacity, the data showed.
Reliance, owner of the world's biggest refining complex, operated its plants at 96.1% capacity in January.
India will be the main driver of rising demand for energy over the next two decades and is set to overtake the European Union as the world's third-biggest energy consumer by 2030, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said earlier this month.
On an annual basis, the country's crude oil production fell by 4.6% to 2.57 million tonnes (610,000 barrels per day), while natural gas output fell 2.2% to 2.55 billion cubic metres, the data showed.
