Crude throughput at China’s refineries is slightly higher in November, with state-owned oil companies lifting their average run rates by one percentage point month on month to 79.8% of capacity, data collected by S&P Global Platts showed on Nov. 27. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now According to the data, 39 refineries of state-owned oil giants Sinopec, PetroChina, CNOOC and Sinochem planned to process 7.07 million b/d of crude in November, accounting for 79.8% of their nameplate capacity of 8.86 million b/d. They include 20 Sinopec refineries, 17 PetroChina refineries, CNOOC’s Huizhou Petrochemical and Sinochem’s Quanzhou Petrochemical refineries. Around 25 of those 39 refineries raised run rates while nine of them cut rates, including a few that were under maintenance in November. This compared with 25 of them reducing run rates in October. PetroChina and Sinochem have each raised run rates […]