Saudi Arabia remained China’s top crude oil supplier in March, despite arrivals slipping 1.6% year on year to 1.7 million b/d or 7.21 million mt, the latest data from General Administration of Customs showed Monday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now The year-on-year fall was mainly due to a high base in the same month of last year, which was 1.73 million b/d. In the first quarter, China’s crude imports from Saudi Arabia jumped 14% to 1.77 million b/d. GAC releases data in metric tons, which S&P Global Platts converts to barrels using a 7.33 conversion factor. The country’s crude imports from Saudi Arabia in Q1 totaled 21.95 million mt. As a result, China’s crude imports from the Middle East went up […]