China’s crude oil imports from top supplier Saudi Arabia soared 38% in April from a year earlier, hitting the highest monthly volume since May 2020, according to Reuters’ calculations based on official Chinese customs data. Saudi shipments amounted to 8.93 million tonnes last month, equivalent to...
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Qatar hopes to start sending liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Germany in 2024, the Gulf state’s deputy prime minister told the German daily Handelsblatt on Friday. “We want to have our U.S. Golden Pass liquefied natural gas plant in Texas, in which Qatar Energy holds a 70% stake, ready to deliver to...
U.S. refiners imported about 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude and fuel oil from Latin America in April, the highest in seven months according to U.S. Customs data, as buyers began replacing Russian supplies. The United States in March banned imports of Russian crude and refined products...
As wheat exports from India trickled to a stop, anxious importing nations have started putting in diplomatic requests as the list of countries seeking the grain continues to increase, officials told Moneycontrol. About a dozen countries have reached out to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA),...
Record high gasoline and diesel prices in the United States are drawing a growing flow of tankers from Europe, where pump prices are lingering near record highs. So far in May, Europe has exported around 540,000 barrels per day of gasoline on the transatlantic route, close to the highest level...
Ukraine has exported 643,000 tonnes of grain since the start of May, considerably less than during the same period of last year when it sold 1.8 million tonnes abroad, the agriculture ministry said. The volume has shrunk because of logistical problems since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and...
Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer and exporter, will lift a late April ban on the exports of palm oil products from May 23, President Joko Widodo said in a live broadcast, May 19. “The national demand for cooking oil is 194,000 mt per month and in March before the export ban was...
Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) bought a total of 174,744 tonnes of food-quality wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in regular tenders that closed on Thursday. Japan, the world’s sixth-biggest wheat importer, keeps a tight grip on imports of the...
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India’s customs authority has permitted four vessels to resume loading the balance of their wheat cargoes in a document dated May 17 seen by S&P Global Commodity Insights. On May 13, India had banned wheat exports to maintain domestic availability of the food grain and check rising prices. Prior to...
Indonesia will lift its palm oil export ban from Monday, May 23, following improvements in the domestic cooking oil supply situation, President Joko Widodo said on Thursday. The decision to lift the ban was taken despite the price of bulk cooking oil having not yet reached the targeted 14,000...
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