In July Norwegian exports reached NOK 62.7 billion, while imports came to NOK 31.8 billion. The trade balance reached NOK 30.8 billion, up 39 per cent from June to July this year. Increased crude oil exports contributed to the July result.
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U.S. crude futures extended gains to trade firmly above $70 a barrel on Thursday, after a 1 percent
surged a day earlier, as Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher, offsetting a larger-than-expected build in U.S. crude inventories.
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Asian imports of West African crude oil were expected to reach 1.62 million barrels per day in August, trade sources said on Thursday, the highest monthly volume since March 2006 as per Reuters data.
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India’s leading state-owned refiner, Indian Oil Corp, has bought 1.0 million barrels of Tunisia’s Zarzaitine crude in its fourth tender to buy September-loading sweet crude, trade sources said. IOC purchased the cargo from Algerian state-owned Sonatrach at a premium of 85 to 90 cents to dated Brent.
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Asian imports of West African crude oil were expected to reach 1.62 million barrels per day
in August, trade sources said on Thursday, the highest monthly volume since March 2006 as per Reuters data.
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Japan’s Nippon Oil Corp declared that it had filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court, asking for a rejection of the National Tax Tribunal’s findings in January that imposed extra taxes on the refiner on gains from energy derivatives trading.
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Oil prices surged in Asian trade Thursday, getting a lift from a bigger-than-expected dip in US crude reserves.
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India’s second-largest state-run refiner, Bharat Petroleum Corp, tendered on Tuesday to purchase an unspecified quantity of crude oil for loading in July.
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Crude oil fell on Tuesday, snapping four days of gains, on concern a U.S. government report will show stockpiles climbed from the highest level since September 1990. Crude oil for June delivery declined as much as 77 cents, or 1.4 per cent, to $53.70 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil is up 21 per cent this year.
Crude oil continued to trade low for the second consecutive day, thereby causing oil and gas stocks slip into red on the Bombay Stock Exchange today.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009