S.Korea’s June crude oil imports up 5.9% y/y – preliminary data

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)