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China May crude runs up 3.5pc on year

Published June 13, 2014 Updated June 13, 2014 05:50am

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By Parvez Jabri

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BEIJING: China's refinery crude throughput in May rose 3.5 percent from a year earlier to 40.33 million tonnes, or 9.5 million barrels per day (bpd), data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday.

But daily crude runs were down from 9.63 million bpd in April, as refineries scaled back output amid peak maintenance period.

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