Chinese refiners’ crude throughput in April slumped 10.5% year on year to a two-year low of 12.66 million b/d as COVID-19 lockdowns reduced oil demand, National Bureau of Statistics data showed. The April throughput fell 8.6% from 13.85 million b/d in March, and was below the January-February average of 14.04 million b/d. Meanwhile the 320,000 .
China’s crude throughput is set to reach a two-year low in April as state and independent refiners have slashed runs because of the latest COVID-19 resurgence that has hurt the country’s appetite for oil products when refineries are undergoing scheduled maintenance, data from S&P Global Commodity Insights showed. April run rates at the country’s four .
The average utilization rate of China’s four state-owned refiners fell from 84% in August to 82% in September, while independent refiners also cut run rates by two percentage points. As a result, the country’s crude throughput is likely to fall further from the 15-month low of 58.35 million mt in August, data from the National .
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China’s four oil giants lifted their average utilization rate to a 19-month high of 84% in August as plants returned from maintenance, in line with the expectation that the state-run refineries would compensate for the throughput cut by their independent peers. While independent refineries were expected to cut utilization rate in the second half of .