China’s crude throughput in the second quarter is likely to be buoyed by improving domestic demand and a shortage of oil product supplies due to the introduction of consumption taxes on light cycle oil and mixed aromatics, analysts said on May 17. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now In the first month of Q2, the country’s throughput edged up 0.1% at 14.15 million b/d in April from March even as heavy maintenance works led to the volume falling below the average 14.19 million b/d in the first quarter, showed data released May 17 by the National Bureau of Statistics, or NBS. China’s overall planned maintenance is expected to rise […]