{"id":48832,"date":"2021-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/?guid=e8eaf70711c55bbe72d80297d942b559"},"modified":"2021-06-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:00:00","slug":"kuwaits-may-crude-oil-exports-to-japan-down-27-5-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/kuwaits-may-crude-oil-exports-to-japan-down-27-5-pct\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait’s May crude oil exports to Japan down 27.5 Pct"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kuwait’s crude oil exports to Japan in May fell 27.5 percent from a year earlier to 5.43 million barrels, or 175,000 barrels per day (bpd), down for the 14th month in a row, government data showed Wednesday.<\/p>\n
As Japan’s fourth-biggest oil provider, Kuwait supplied 7.2 percent of the Asian nation’s total crude imports, the Japanese Natural Resources and Energy Agency said in a preliminary report.<\/p>\n
Japan’s overall imports of crude oil grew 5.9 percent year-on-year to 2.42 million bpd, up for the first time in 17 months. Shipments from the Middle East accounted for 92.9 percent of the total, unchanged from the year before.<\/p>\n
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) remained Japan’s No.1 oil supplier, with imports from the country jumping 28.8 percent from a year earlier to 940,000 bpd, followed by Saudi Arabia with 825,000 bpd, down 11.5 percent. Qatar ranked third with 257,000 bpd and Russia fifth with 141,000 bpd, respectively.<\/p>\n
Japan is the world’s-third biggest oil consumer after China and the US<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kuwait’s crude oil exports to Japan in May fell 27.5 percent from a year earlier to 5.43 million barrels, or 175,000 barrels per day (bpd), down for the 14th month in a row, government data showed Wednesday.As Japan’s fourth-biggest oil provider, Kuwa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n