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REFINING: China's Teapots Raise Run Rates Amid Increasing Margins

REFINING

China’s independent oil refiners in Shandong raised run rates to the highest in eight weeks at 50.8% of capacity in the week to Aug. 23 with a slow increase due to improved margins, according to Mysteel OilChem cited by Bloomberg.

  • Teapots saw CDU margins rise more than 70% w/w to the highest since Feb. 8 at 355 yuan a ton in week of Aug. 22.
  • Run rates are state-owned refineries remained unchanged for a third week at 77% of capacity.
  • China’s commercial gasoline stockpiles fell to about 11.3m tons and commercial diesel inventories fell to the lowest since January at 15.2m tons in the week to Aug. 23.

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