Kenneth Maxwell

1 day ago | hydrocarbonprocessing.com | Josephine Mason |Stella Qiu |Chen Aizhu |Kenneth Maxwell

BEIJING (Reuters) — China's oil refineries increased their run rates by 12.7% to a record for September, data showed on Thursday, after a major new state-run refinery launched operations and independent plants came back on stream after maintenance. Processing volumes in September were up 12.7% in September compared with the same month a year ago at 49.34 MMt, or 12 MMbpd. That was also an increase on August's 11.1 MMbpd, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics.