据2月16日Oil Monster消息：日本东北部发生强烈地震，导致电力、动车线路中断。Eneos Corp为首的日本炼油商关闭了该国五分之一的原油炼油产能。
全球第四大石油进口国的炼油厂关闭，是去年疫情导致原油需求蒸发后的另一个潜在打击。
日产量多达74.3万桶的石油加工能力被闲置，接近日本大约340万桶/天产能的22%。
此次地震震中附近的横滨和仙台等地的炼油厂要么自动关闭，要么立即闲置以待检查。
Eneos表示，发生大地震后，仙台炼油厂关闭了其14.5万桶/天的产能。另外，日产量为27万桶的根岸炼油厂也已关闭，且没有确定恢复运营的日期。
日本富士石油有限公司一位发言人称，地震发生后，该公司关闭了位于东京东部千叶市Sodegaura炼油厂14.3万桶/天的原油蒸馏装置(CDU)。
富士石油唯一的炼油厂在地震后自动关闭，因为未发现损坏，该公司计划在周二重启CDU。
冯娟 摘译自 Oil Monster
原文如下：
Japan Quake Knocks Out 20% of Country’s Refining Capacity
Japanese refiners led by the biggest, Eneos Corp, shut down a fifth of the country’s crude oil refining capacity after a powerful earthquake struck northeastern Japan knocking out power, bullet train lines and injuring more than 150 people.
They refinery shutdowns in the world’s fourth-biggest oil importer are another potential hit after the pandemic led to the evaporation of crude demand over the last year.
As much as 743,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil-processing capacity has been idled, nearly 22% of Japan’s roughly 3.4 million bpd capacity.
The refineries in locations from Yokohama to Sendai near the epicentre of the 7.3-magnitude earthquake, which struck a little before midnight on Saturday, either automatically shut down or were idled immediately for checks.
Eneos said on Monday it shut down its 145,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Sendai refinery after it was hit by a large earthquake on Saturday. The company is still making checks on the refinery and does not have a restart date, the spokesman said.
Eneos later said the company’s 270,000 bpd Negishi refinery, had also closed and it had no date for the resumption of operations.
The earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan, injuring scores of people, triggering widespread power outages and causing damage across parts of northern Japan, including in Fukushima which is still recovering a decade after a bigger quake in the same area.
Fuji Oil Co Ltd shut the 143,000 barrel-per-day crude distillation unit (CDU) at its Sodegaura oil refinery in Chiba, east of Tokyo, after it was hit by an earthquake on Saturday, a company spokesman said on Monday.
Fuji Oil’s only refinery was shut down automatically after the quake and the company plans to restart the CDU on Tuesday as no damage was found, the spokesman said.
Idemitsu Kosan did not immediately respond to a request to comment on media reports it had shut down its 190,000 bpd Chiba refinery, also because of the quake.
