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For The First Time Ever Russia Beats Saudi Arabia As China's Top Oil Supplier
Monday, January 23, 2017 8:17
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While OPEC members were infighting over crude production and export quotas, posturing with temporary production cuts (just so the Saudis could get a six month reprieve during which it clears out a massive internal crude glut), Russia was busy capturing market share, and according to overnight Chinese data, Russia overtook Saudi Arabia as China’s top oil supplier last year for the first time ever boosted by robust demand from independent Chinese “teapot” refineries.
Russia boosted oil exports to China by 24% from 2015 to 52.5 million metric tons, or 1.05 million barrels per day, according to data released Monday by the General Administration of Customs, cited by Bloomberg …. http://www.zerohedge.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2017/01/for-first-time-ever-russia-beats-saudi.html
