China National Offshore Oil Corp or CNOOC Group, the parent of listed arm CNOOC Ltd, refined 30.08 million mt (602,400 b/d) of crude last year, up 15.2% from 26.1 million mt in 2011, the company said in its 2012 sustainable development ...
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US crude oil imports in February fell 770,000 b/d year on year, or 9%, to average 7.8 million b/d -- their lowest level in 16 years, the American Petroleum Institute said Thursday. Total crude and refined product imports fell in February ...
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China's dependence on foreign crude oil and refined oil products is set to increase, but the government has placed a cap at 61% of total requirements for the end of the current five-year economic plan in 2015, according to a new government ...
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As southbound pipeline capacity is built and there's less demand in the Midwest, West Texas Intermediate will stabilize and trade at about $7/b under Light Louisiana Sweet, an industry expert said at an event Friday. Less demand for WTI, ...
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China's crude oil imports in December rose 8% year on year to 23.67 million mt, or an average of 5.6 million b/d, according to preliminary trade data released Thursday by the General Administration of Customs. The volume is 1.9% lower ...
Japan's largest refiner JX Nippon Oil & Energy has cut "slightly" its crude imports from Iran under a renewed annual contract beyond January 2013, company chairman Yasushi Kimura told Platts Monday. Speaking on the sidelines of a New Year ...
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Weekly oil data from the US Energy Information Administration and the American Petroleum Institute should show a 1 million-barrel draw in US commercial crude inventories for the week ending December 28, analysts polled by Platts said ...
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China's crude imports from South America and the Caspian region rose by 18% and 20% year on year respectively in the first eleven months of 2012, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs. The imports from ...
MNA reported that despite the well orchestrated attempts by Persian Gulf Arab oil producers to take over markets belonged to Iran, high benzene and gasoline productivity of Iranian crude and performance compared to other crude in the ...
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Reuters reported that energy over metals, raw over refined, sums up the likely theme for China's commodity demand next year. Commodity markets had become accustomed to China as a voracious consumer of resources, but 2012 showed that ...
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Indian Times reported that Essar Oil, one of the key Indian clients of Iran, imported about 30% more oil from the nation in October compared with September and made rare purchases of Oriente grade from Ecuador. Essar has renewed its term ...
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Turkey's crude oil imports from Iran fell more than 30% to 75,281 barrels per day in October from September as substitute oil from other suppliers including Iraq and Saudi Arabia rose more. Iraq was Turkey's biggest crude supplier in ...
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KUNA reported that Kuwait's crude oil exports to Japan jumped 25.3% in October from a year earlier to 8.19 million barrels or 264,000 barrels per day for the first expansion in 2 months. The Japanese Natural Resources and Energy Agency ...
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Reuters reported that China's imports of both iron ore and crude oil were the second highest on record in November,providing encouraging signals on demand for commodities in the world's second largest economy. The strength in consumption ...
Iran's crude exports are set to drop by about a quarter in December from the preceding month to the lowest since tough sanctions were applied this year. Shipping sources said that oil shipments by Iran have more than halved in 2012 due to ...