Russia’s surging oil exports to China in Aug fail to keep Saudis down: data

RIYADH: China’s crude oil imports from Russia in August surged 28 percent from a year earlier, data showed on Tuesday, but it handed back its top supplier ranking to Saudi Arabia for the first time in four months.

Imports of Russian oil, including supplies pumped via the East Siberia Pacific Ocean pipeline and seaborne shipments from Russia’s European and Far Eastern ports, totaled 8.342 million tons, data from the Chinese General Administration of Customs showed.