Singapore — Crude oil throughput at China’s domestic refineries further recovered to 13.69 million b/d, jumping 8.2% year on year, to post the first uptick since the coronavirus outbreak, the National Bureau of Statistics data released on June 15 showed. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now On a barrels/day basis, the volume rebounded 4.1% from 13.16 million b/d in April, up 15.7% from 11.83 million b/d in March and from the floor it had slumped to in February, when the country was under lockdown to contain the coronavirus outbreak. NBS did not release monthly throughput data for February. However, the May throughput was slightly lower than what was registered in December and November last year, which stood at 13.84 million b/d and 13.7 million b/d, respectively. The strong year-on-year increase in May brought the January-May throughput to 12.61 million b/d. As a result, […]