South Korea’s June crude oil imports rose 5.9% to 79.0 million barrels from a year earlier, preliminary data from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy showed on Thursday.
Final data will be released later this month by state-run Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC).
Details are as follows (in millions of barrels): June 2021 May 2021* June 2020* Crude Oil 79.0 81.0 74.7 * Actual import figures
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Joori Rohl; Editing by Amy Caren Daniel)