{
  "id": 19803101,
  "title": "Asian Refiners Turn Back to Gulf Oil Despite War Risks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/asian-refiners-turn-back-to-gulf-oil-despite-war-risks",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-13T11:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "OilPrice",
    "slug": "oilprice",
    "url": "https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Asian-Refiners-Turn-Back-to-Gulf-Oil-Despite-War-Risks.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Asia’s refiners are back to buying Middle Eastern oil as flows through the Strait of Hormuz rise, freight rates ease from record highs, and Gulf producers are offering their crude at discounts to regional benchmarks. Chinese, Japanese, and Thai oil refiners are increasingly preferring cargoes from the Middle East in recent weeks, even those that need to transit the Strait of Hormuz, traders with…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}