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Crude throughput last month was 51.81 million tonnes, equivalent to 12.61 million barrels per day (bpd), data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday. This compared with 13.8 million bpd in March and 14.09 million bpd in April last year. Processing volumes for the January-April period were down 3.8% on the year at 223.25 million tonnes, or 13.58 million bpd. With tight lockdowns that first centred in the financial hub of To counter slowing fuel sales and bulging inventories, state refiner Sinopec began reducing operations since the second half of March to around 86% of capacity, down from 92.5% earlier in the year. Independent plants, concentrated in the eastern province of "Demand was terrible and margins were so thin that plants ended up losing more money if processing more crude oil," said a trading manager with a The NBS data also showed 4% increase in crude oil production to 17 million tonnes last month, or 4.14 million bpd, as national oil giants followed Production in the January-April period gained 4.3% compared with a year earlier. Natural gas production grew 4.7% in April to 17.7 billion cubic meters and output year-to-date rose 6.2% versus the same period of 2021. The high global gas prices, especially of spot liquefied natural gas, have driven consumers to use more of cheaper domestic supplies. (Reporting by Chen Aizhu and
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