BEIJING: China’s oil refinery throughput in May rose 15.4% from a year earlier, data showed on Thursday, as refiners brought units back online from planned maintenance.
Total refinery throughput in the world’s second-largest oil consumer was 62.0 million tonnes last month, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed, equivalent to 14.6 million barrels per day (bpd).
That compared with 12.7 million bpd in the same period last year, reflecting a low base effect because of the impact of extensive COVID-19 lockdowns during the same period last year. April throughput was 61.1 million tonnes, or 14.87 million bpd.
