据海外媒体6月5日休斯敦报道，美国日前开始了进口小批量的哥伦比亚波多巴伊亚重质原油，这一不同寻常的发展至少突显流入美国炼油厂的重质原油类型的暂时改变。
美国炼油厂通常从加拿大、委内瑞拉和墨西哥接收他们所需的重质原油。但是，装运那些等级原油受到了加拿大森林大火以及墨西哥和委内瑞拉产量下滑的限制。
美国进口的第一批哥伦比亚重质原油是在2月份运抵路易斯安那州的查尔斯湖，同船抵达的还有瓦斯科尼亚原油，接收单位是菲利普斯66炼油厂。
根据消息人士以及美国能源信息署的统计数据，第2批26万桶哥伦比亚重质原油是在3月份运抵美国，接收单位仍是菲利普斯66。
根据消息人士和汤森路透船舶跟踪数据，第三批大约35万桶包括波多巴伊亚原油在内的哥伦比亚重质原油在5月中旬运抵新奥尔良市。
原文如下：
New Colombian Crude Whets Appetite of US Refiners
WEnews.com
June 5, 2016
Houston
The United States has started to import small batches of Colombia's Puerto Bahia heavy crude, an unusual development that underscores at least a temporary shift in the type of heavy oil flowing into U.S. refineries.
Typically, U.S. refineries have received their heavy oil from Canada, Venezuela and Mexico. But shipments of those grades have been limited by Canada wildfires, and slipping output in Mexico and Venezuela.
The first shipment of the Colombian heavy crude arrived at Lake Charles, Louisiana in February co-loaded with Vasconia crude for refiner Phillips 66, followed by a 260,000-barrel cargo in March for the same customer, according to sources and data available from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
A third vessel, the Genmar Compatriot, discharged in mid-May in New Orleans about 350,000 barrels of several Colombian grades, including Puerto Bahia crude, according to the sources and Thomson Reuters vessel tracking data.
