Kuwait’s crude oil exports to Japan in September jumped 16.0 percent from a year earlier to 5.96 million barrels, or 199,000 barrels per day (bpd), for the first increase in two months, government data showed Friday.<\/p>\n
As Japan’s fourth-biggest oil provider, Kuwait supplied 8.1 percent of its total crude imports, the Japanese Natural Resources and Energy Agency said in a preliminary report.<\/p>\n
Japan’s overall imports of crude oil in September grew 15.3 percent year-on-year to 2.47 million bpd, up for the second month in a row. Shipments from the Middle East accounted for 92.7 percent of the total, up 2.2 percentage points from the year before.<\/p>\n
The United Arab Emirates remained Japan’s No.1 oil supplier, with imports from the country soaring 33.0 percent from a year earlier to 895,000 bpd, followed by Saudi Arabia with 855,000 bpd, down 0.3 percent. Qatar ranked third with 208,000 bpd and Bahrain fifth with 83,000 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":"
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