据OE网站3月22日报道，据两名业内人士周一表示，印度Mangalore炼油厂和石化有限公司（MRPL）在招标中购买了首批巴西Tupi原油。
并补充称，这批100万桶的货物由荷兰皇家壳牌出售，将于5月交付。价格目前尚不清楚。
印度国有炼油商计划在5月份将沙特原油进口量减少约四分之一，这导致印度与沙特政府的对峙不断升级。
据消息人士称，MRPL一直在招标中寻找含硫原油，但获得了更具竞争力的廉价低硫原油。
郝芬 译自 OE
原文如下：
Indian Refinery Buys Brazilian Tupi Crude
India's Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd has bought its first-ever cargo of Brazilian Tupi crude oil in a tender, two industry sources said The 1-million-barrel cargo was sold by Royal Dutch Shell for May delivery, he added.
The price was not immediately known.
MRPL had been seeking sour crude in the tender, but had been offered sweet crude at more competitive prices, the sources said.