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Tale of two oil buyers: Saudi crude exports to China soar, US loses out
With China grabbing more Saudi crude, flows to India, Japan and South Korea also appear to have declined last month
 "Tale of two oil buyers: Saudi crude exports to China soar, US loses out")
Oil prices ease as demand worries counter supply cuts
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed on Monday to extend oil supply cuts until March 2020
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Russia, Saudi agree to extend OPEC production cut deal: Vladimir Putin
The OPEC cartel and its oil-producer nation allies opted in December to trim daily crude output by 1.2 million barrels
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The 24-million barrel question: Where is all that missing US oil?
US showed a crude supply adjustment factor -- the difference between reported stockpiles and those implied by production, refinery demand, imports and exports -- of more than 800,000 barrels a day
 "The 24-million barrel question: Where is all that missing US oil?")
Oil prices hit 2019 peak amid supply cuts, US sanctions on Iran, Venezuela
OPEC's crude oil output has slumped from a mid-2018 peak of 32.8 million barrels per day (bpd) to 30.7 million bpd in February
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Oil refiners' next boom is revealed in what they're not doing
The rush to refine during what's normally a fallow period for the industry is a response to the introduction in January in 2020 of rules to cut sulfur emissions from the shipping industry
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