S.Korea’s Dec crude oil imports down 7.5% y/y – preliminary data

Seoul -- South Korea's 
December crude oil imports 
fell 7.5% to 82.7 million 
barrels from a year earlier,
preliminary data from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
showed on Friday.
    
For all of 2020, crude oil 
imports dropped 8.7% year-on-year to 978.5 million 
barrels.
    
Final data will be released later this month by state-run
Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC).
    
Details are as follows (in millions of barrels):
                     Dec 2020         Nov 2020*        Dec 2019*
 Crude Oil             82.7              69.5             89.5
    * Actual import figures

 (Reporting by Joori Roh; Editing by Kim Coghill)