據4月20日Energy Voice報道，由于當前市場嚴峻形勢，石油價格大幅下跌，世界上最神秘的實體燃料貿易公司Hin Leong有限公司受到嚴重影響。新加坡石油交易商Hin Leong創始人兒子表示，他隱瞞了在期貨交易中造成的約8億美元損失，這表明該公司的財務漏洞比想象的要大得多。

該公司持有的石油庫存與向銀行承諾的庫存之間存在巨大缺口。這可能意味著，提供數十億美元貸款作為擔保的銀行將蒙受巨額損失。

上周五，Lim家族的獨資企業Hin Leong和遠洋油輪都向法院申請了破產保護，前者因為難以償還債務。

知情人士稱，此前，Hin Leong公布了45.6億美元的正資產凈值和7800萬美元的凈利潤。然而截至4月初，該公司總負債達到40.5億美元，而資產僅為7.14億美元，至少存在33.4億美元的虧空。該公司石油產品庫存價值僅為1.41億美元，而在2019年10月的審計報表中，該公司宣布的石油產品庫存價值為12.8億美元。截至2020年4月，Hin Leong只有5000萬美元現金流，而2019年10月達4.61億美元。

鄒勤 摘譯自 Energy Voice

原文如下：

Singapore oil trader is said to have hidden $800million losses

The son of the legendary founder of Hin Leong said the Singapore oil trader hid about $800 million in losses racked up in futures trading, suggesting a much bigger hole in the company’s finances than thought, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The downfall of Hin Leong Trading (Pte) Ltd., one of the biggest and most secretive forces in the world of physical fuel-oil trading, shows the depth of the fallout from the dramatic drop in oil prices so far this year as a consequence of the Saudi-Russia price war and the coronavirus pandemic.

As a result, the company faces a significant shortfall between the oil stocks it held and the inventories pledged to its banks. That potentially means huge losses for the banks which provided the merchant with billions in loans as the collateral they thought they have as a guarantee isn’t there.

Hin Leong and Ocean Tankers both filed for court protection from creditors on Friday as the former struggles to repay its debts. Both companies are solely owned by the Lim family.

Hin Leong posted a positive equity of $4.56 billion and net profit of $78 million in the period ended October 31, according to the people, who asked not to be identified as the matter is sensitive.

But Hin Leong told its creditors this month that total liabilities reached $4.05 billion as of early April, while assets were just $714 million, leaving a hole of at least $3.34 billion, according to screenshots of the presentation to a group of bankers seen by Bloomberg News.

The company told its creditors that it only had $141 million worth of oil products inventory, compared with the $1.28 billion it declared in its audited statement on October 2019. Hin Leong had only $50 million in cash as of April 2020, compared with $461 million in October 2019.