据今日油价网站2月15日消息 路透社援引不具名知情人士的话报道称，壳牌公司因故障关闭了鹿园炼油厂的原油蒸馏装置。
这两个原油蒸馏装置的日总产能为31万桶。据路透社消息人士称，炼油厂向其他装置输送原油的泵密封失效后，这两个原油蒸馏装置被关闭。
原油蒸馏装置是炼油过程的第一阶段。其中，原油被送入炼油厂，在那里被蒸馏成各种馏分，然后被送往炼油厂的其他装置进行进一步加工。
因此，关闭原油蒸馏装置实际上意味着关闭大部分炼油厂。
壳牌公司最近透露，计划在未来10年内关闭7家炼油厂，削减55%的柴油和汽油产量，以减少炼油产能，这是壳牌公司到2050年实现净零产量的一部分。
其中一个炼油厂将关闭是在Convent，为路易斯安那州的设施，其于2020年底开始停产。此前壳牌未能找到买家购买该设施，原因是新冠疫情和原油供应过剩导致石油和燃料需求下滑。Convent的原油日产量为24万桶，能够生产11.5万桶/日的汽油、3.1万桶/日的喷气燃料和7.7万桶/日的低硫柴油。
壳牌并不是美国唯一关闭炼油厂的公司。在市场环境的压力下，其他加工设施正在被改造成生物燃料厂或封存。燃料需求并没有像炼油厂所需要的那样迅速改善，而绿色过渡运动正在给燃料的长期需求前景蒙上阴影，迫使炼油厂调整计划。
王磊 摘译自 今日油价
原文如下：
Shell Shuts Down 310,000 Bpd Deer Park Refinery
Shell has shut down the crude distillation units of its Deer Park refinery due to a malfunction, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
The two crude distillation units have a combined capacity of 310,000 barrels of oil daily. According to the Reuters sources, they were shut down after a seal failed on a pump that feeds crude to other units at the refinery.
Crude distillation units are where the first phase of the refining process takes place. In it, crude oil is fed into the refinery, where it is distilled into the various fractions that are then sent on to other units at the refinery for further processing.
Therefore, shutting down the crude distillation units effectively means shutting down most of the refinery.
Shell recently revealed plans to reduce its refining capacity by shutting down seven refineries and cutting diesel and gasoline production by 55 percent over the next ten years as part of its journey to a net-zero company by 2050.
One of the refineries to be closed is the facility in Convent, Louisiana. Its shutdown started at the end of 2020 after Shell failed to find a buyer for the facility amid the slump in oil and fuel demand caused by the pandemic and excess supply of crude. The Convent facility had a capacity of 240,000 barrels of crude oil daily and was capable of producing 115,000 bpd of gasoline, 31,000 bpd of jet fuel, and 77,000 bpd of low-sulfur diesel.
Shell is not the only one closing refineries in the United States. Other processing facilities are being converted into biofuels plants or mothballed under pressure from market conditions. Fuel demand has not been improving from the pandemic blow as fast as refiners need it to improve, and the green transition movement is clouding the outlook for long-term demand for fuels, forcing refiners to adjust their plans.
