2016-08-31

China's Mystery Oil Demand

Nobody knows how much oil storage China's government has or how long they will continue filling stockpiles.

Bloomberg: Mystery of Oil Held on Chinese Islands Puzzles Crude Markets
The government also said at the time it has leased space in commercial sites, signaling it could buy additional oil while more of its own tanks are constructed. Nobody replied to a fax sent to the press office of the National Energy Administration asking for details about the SPR.

“SPR has been a China mystery due to the lack of government data disclosure,” said Ying Wang, a Hong Kong-based analyst at JPMorgan. The bank estimates the amount of crude China is putting into stockpiles by calculating how much more oil the country is buying and producing than it’s using.

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