据外媒6月29日援引两名知情人士报道，印度第一大伊朗石油买家埃萨石油公司本月已向伊朗付清了5亿美元的欠款。
埃萨石油在西古吉拉特邦的瓦迪纳炼油厂日处理能力约40万桶。由于西方制裁封锁了银行通道，埃萨石油购买伊朗石油而欠下的债务高达30亿美元。据悉，印度炼油商正在通过印度国家银行和欧洲伊朗商业银行，以欧元结算石油债务。埃萨石油对此没有做出回应。
原文如下：
India's Essar settles $500 mln of Iran oil bill
Essar Oil, the top Indian buyer of Iranian oil, has this month cleared $500 million of a debt owed to Tehran, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Essar, which operates a 400,000 barrels per day oil refinery at Vadinar in Western Gujarat state, owed about $3 billion to Iran for oil purchases made when tough Western sanctions had choked banking channels.
Indian refiners have been settling oil debts in euros via State Bank of India and Germany-based bank Europaeisch-Iranische Handelsbank AG (EIH).
No comment was available from Essar.
