新加坡利用其处于西亚原油产地和东方石油消费区之间的交通咽喉位置,发展了炼油工业和石油化学工业。炼油业给新加坡经济的发展带来了显著变化,现有7家大型炼油厂。日加工原油能力相当于东南亚地区炼油总量的40%,年加工能力达5500万吨,炼油工业占全国工业总产值的2/5以上,是仅次于美国休斯敦和荷兰鹿特丹的世界第3大炼油中心。主要是从中东、印度尼西亚、马来西亚进口原油,加工为成品油,除就地供应过往商船外。又向日本、美国、澳大利亚和东盟各国出口。 Singapore has developed its refining and petrochemical industries using its position in the transportation throat between the West Asian crude oil production area and the Eastern Petroleum consumption area. The oil refining industry has brought significant changes to the development of Singapore’s economy. There are currently seven large-scale oil refineries. The ability to process crude oil on a daily basis is equivalent to 40% of the total refinery volume in Southeast Asia, with an annual processing capacity of 55 million tons, and the refining industry accounts for more than 2/5 of the country’s total industrial output value. It is the third largest in the world after Houston, USA and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Refining center. It mainly imports crude oil from the Middle East, Indonesia, and Malaysia and processes it into refined oil, except for the supply of local merchant ships. It also exports to Japan, the United States, Australia and ASEAN countries.