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When the Levee Breaks

The weakest June for Chinese crude imports in a decade did not cost a single barrel of throughput. Imports fell 41.3% on the year, runs held above 12.4 mb/d, and product exports went up. The difference came out of the tanks. At the draw rate of the last four months, what is left of this ...

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