A few days ago, Zhao Youshan, chief executive of the China Merchants Petroleum Commission, told the reporter that the company has reported to the competent authorities that the 36 million tons of idle oil tanks of private enterprises are included in the national oil commercial reserve system. Currently, this proposal Has been approved by senior leaders, related policies will soon be introduced.
This person introduced the situation at the 2010 China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee Annual Meeting and Summit Forum. The national petroleum strategic reserve opened its doors to private enterprises for the first time, and six private enterprises successfully entered the short-list. The national commercial reserve and national strategic reserve are national petroleum. The two major systems of reserve.
According to reports, the total private oil tanks with a storage capacity of more than 10,000 tons nationwide have reached 36 million tons and have been idle for a long time. Nearly 20 million tons of these oil tanks are distributed along the coast, facilitating import of oil reserves. At present, international oil prices are at 80. Around US$/barrel is a good time to store oil.
Zhao Youshan said that the use of private oil depots for national commercial reserves has solved the time and capital costs for the country’s construction of oil depots and will rapidly expand the scale of China’s oil reserves.
It is reported that China is currently carrying out major strategic petroleum reserves. The first phase has been completed and filled with oil. The scale is about 12 million tons. The second phase and the third phase of the base are under construction. After the completion, it will reach about 85 million tons.
The reason why he applied for joining the commercial reserve, Zhao Youshan explained that because it is different from the national strategic oil reserve, as one of the national commercial reserves, private enterprises can independently use crude oil from oil depots on the basis of guaranteeing a certain proportion of the obligatory reserves to solve the problem Source problem.