{"id":396669,"date":"2021-01-21T12:19:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T06:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396669"},"modified":"2021-01-21T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T09:40:16","slug":"saudi-arabia-edges-past-russia-to-become-chinas-biggest-oil-supplier-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-arabia-edges-past-russia-to-become-chinas-biggest-oil-supplier-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia edges past Russia to become China&#8217;s biggest oil supplier in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia, the world&#8217;s biggest oil exporter, beat Russia to keep its ranking as China&#8217;s top crude supplier in 2020, Chinese government data showed on Wednesday. Oil demand in China, the world&#8217;s top oil importer, remained strong last year even as the coronavirus crisis hammered global appetite.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese imports rose 7.3% to a record of 542.4 million tonnes or 10.85 million barrels per day (bpd). Saudi shipments to China in 2020 were rose 1.9% from a year earlier to 84.92 million tonnes, or about 1.69 million bpd, data from the General Administration of Chinese Customs showed.<\/p>\n<p>Russia was a close second with shipments of 83.57 million tonnes, or 1.67 million bpd, up 7.6% from 2019, the data showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia, the world&#8217;s biggest oil exporter, beat Russia to keep its ranking as China&#8217;s top crude supplier in 2020, Chinese government data showed on Wednesday. Oil demand in China, the world&#8217;s top oil importer, remained strong last year even as the coronavirus crisis hammered global appetite. Chinese imports rose 7.3% to a record of 542.4 million tonnes or 10.85 million barrels per day (bpd). Saudi shipments to China in 2020 were rose 1.9% from a year earlier to 84.92 million tonnes, or about 1.69 million bpd, data from the General Administration of Chinese Customs showed. Russia was a close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}