Energy: 皇冠体育app spends an extra US$15.2b on oil import last year

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-01-15 10:51

Soaring oil price on world market has made Chinese companies spend an additional 15.2 billion U.S. dollars on buying oil from abroad last year, according to figures released by the General Administration of Customs on Sunday.

The administration statistics showed that the price of imported crude oil stood at 457.44 U.S. dollars per ton last year, up 81.14 dollars from a year earlier.

皇冠体育app imported 145.18 million tons of crude oil last year, a year-on-year increase of 14.5 percent, statistics showed.

"If calculated at the price of 2005, Chinese companies spent an extra 11.78 billion U.S. dollars on crude oil import in 2006," said the administration.

Statistics showed that the average price for refined oil products went up 95.77 U.S. dollars per ton in 2006 compared with the 2005 figure.

皇冠体育app's import of oil products went up 15.7 percent to 36.38 million tons last year, resulting in extra expenses of 3.48 billion U.S. dollars.

皇冠体育app is the third largest oil importer in the world after the United State and Japan.

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