据烃加工新闻6月30日消息称，一位知情人士称，该国最大的炼油商印度石油公司已首次购买圭亚那的 Liza 轻质低硫原油，以寻求原油采购的多元化。

　　根据Refinitiv的数据，这批100万桶货物将于7月4日左右由悬挂希腊国旗的油轮Militos驶往印度Paradip港，并将于8月8日左右抵达。

　　该消息人士称，这将是一次“试运”，但没有给出定价细节。该消息人士称，印度正与圭亚那政府就国有炼油企业的长期石油供应合同进行谈判。

　　IOC是印度第一家购买Liza石油的国有炼油商。国有的印度斯坦石油公司与钢铁大亨 LN Mittal的合资企业 HPCL-Mittal能源公司于 3 月购买了 100 万桶 Liza 级原油。

　　IOC拒绝立即发表评论。

　　印度是世界第三大石油进口国和消费国，其石油需求的80%以上来自海外，严重依赖中东地区。

　　今年早些时候，在石油输出国组织及其盟友（被称为欧佩克+）未能放松供应限制，导致全球油价飙升后，印度要求国有炼油商加快原油来源的多样化。

　　国有炼油企业——IOC、HPCL、巴拉特石油公司和芒格洛尔炼油和石化有限公司——共同控制了印度500万桶/天炼油能力的五分之三。

　　朱佳妮 摘译自 烃加工新闻

　　原文如下：

　　India's top refiner buys its first Guyanese oil

　　Indian Oil Corp, the country's top refiner, has made its first purchase of Guyana's Liza light sweet crude as it seeks to diversify its crude purchases, a source familiar with matter said.

　　The 1 million-barrel cargo will set sail around July 4 on Greece-flagged tanker Militos for India's Paradip port, where it is set to arrive around August 8, according to Refinitiv data.

　　This would be a 'trial cargo', the source said, without giving details of pricing. The source said that India is in talks with Guyana's government for a term oil supply contract for state refiners.

　　IOC is the first Indian state refiner to buy Liza oil. Private refiner HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd, a joint venture between state-run Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL.NS) and steel tycoon L.N. Mittal, bought a million barrels of Liza grade in March.

　　IOC declined to immediately comment.

　　India, the world's third biggest oil importer and consumer, ships in more than 80% of its oil needs from overseas and relies heavily on the Middle East.

　　Earlier this year India asked state refiners to expedite the diversification of crude sources after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, also known as OPEC+ failed to ease supply curbs, leading to a spike in global oil prices.

　　The state refiners - IOC, HPCL, Bharat Petroleum and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd - together control about three-fifths of India's 5 million barrel per day refining capacity.