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中国石化新闻网讯 据油气新闻网8月7日消息，美国炼油商希望从加拿大进口更多石油，管道公司正想方设法解决该问题。

尽管规模更大的扩建计划和新管道建设面临延期，但各公司仍在为其拥挤的加拿大石油出口管道增加空间。TC能源最早将于明年通过使用一种名为阻力剂的化学品来缓解管道内的流量，使Keystone输油管道达到5万桶/天的新产能。

该公司发言人Jamie Harding在一封电子邮件中说，这“将使TC能源能够应对从加拿大西部到美国墨西哥湾沿岸的原油运输能力增加的需求”。

全球最大的石油管道系统运营商Enbridge 公司也在使用类似的方法，计划在明年年初之前为其系统的日产量增加约13.5万桶。

Auspice资本顾问公司创始人兼首席投资官Tim Pickering表示，自6月以来，Enbridge干线原油日产量较上年同期增加21.3万桶。加拿大自然资源公司总裁Tim McKay周四表示，铁路出口也在增加，预计将达到50万桶/天。

据彭博社编制的数据显示，周三，西德克萨斯中质原油期货价格较1月份的加拿大原油期货价格下跌不到20美元/桶，而一个月前的跌幅接近22美元/桶。

Enbridge发言人Jesse Semko在一封电子邮件中表示，在过去的“几年”里，公司已经优化了其管道系统，每天新增约22万桶的产能。

在输油管道满负荷运行一年多以来，加拿大石油生产商一直难以出口原油。去年10月，加拿大西部精选重质原油期货价格跌至50美元/桶。情况变得非常糟糕，以至于艾伯塔省政府对最大的供应商实施了强制性限制。

即使在Enbridge宣布其3号线管道扩建计划要到明年晚些时候才会开始运营(比原计划晚了12个月)之后，油价仍在走强，这种情况可能会促使产量限制延长至2020年。与此同时，将于明年生效的低硫船舶燃料新规，可能会降低对加拿大生产的重质高硫原油的需求。

尽管石油输出国组织减产，美国墨西哥湾沿岸及海外炼油商对重质原油的工具箱需求已经增强。上个月，一批Kearl原油从墨西哥湾沿岸运往马来西亚，这是五年来首次出货。

裘寅 编译自 油气新闻

原文如下：

Pipelines Make Room to Meet Increased Demand for Canadian Crude

U.S. refiners want more Canadian oil, and pipeline companies are finding ways to get it to them.

Companies are adding space to their congested oil export pipelines from Canada even as plans for bigger expansions and new lines face delays. TC Energy will offer as much as 50,000 bpd of new capacity on its Keystone pipeline as early as next year by using chemicals, called drag resistance agents, to ease flows through the system.

That “will allow TC Energy to respond to the demand for additional transportation capacity for crude oil from western Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast,” Jamie Harding, a spokesman for the company, said in an email.

Enbridge Inc., operator of the largest oil pipeline system, is using similar methods to add about 135,000 bpd of extra capacity to its system by early next year.

Since June, flows on Enbridge’s Mainline are up 213,000 bpd from a year earlier, said Tim Pickering, founder and chief investment officer of Auspice Capital Advisors in Calgary. Rail exports are also ramping up and are forecast to reach 500,000 bopd, Tim McKay, present of Canadian Natural Resources, said Thursday.

Heavy Canadian crude for January was less than $20/bbl below to West Texas Intermediate futures Wednesday ve氧化镁rsus almost $22/bbl a month ago, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Enbridge has optimized its pipeline system to create about 220,000 bpd of new capacity over the past “couple of years,” Jesse Semko, a spokesman for the company, said in an email.

Canadian oil producers have been str波段开关uggling to export their crude for more than a year after 古琴pipelines filled to capacity, sending the price of heavy Western Canadian Select crude to a $50/bbl discount to futures last October. The situation became dire enough that Alberta’s government imposed mandatory limits on the largest suppliers.

Prices are strengthening even after Enbridge announced that its Line 3 pipeline expansion won’t start operation until late next year, about 12 months behind schedule, a situation that could prompt an extension of the production limits into 2020. At the same time, new low-sulfur ship fuel rules that go into force next year threaten to cut demand for the heavy, high-sulfur grades of crude produced in Canada.

Still, demand for heavy crude by refiners in the U.S. Gulf Coast and abroad has strengthened，OPEC cut output. A cargo of Kearl crude was shipped from the Gulf Coast to Malaysia last month, the first such shipment in five years.