CHINA DATA: 2022 crude throughput falls 3.4% on year to 13.6 mil b/d

China’s crude throughput fell 3.4% year on year to 13.57 million b/d in 2022, the first annual reduction since 2001, despite refineries lifting crude runs by 2.5% on the year in December, National Bureau of Statistics data released Jan. 17 showed. In 2001, the country trimmed its throughput by 0.4% on the year to 4.22 million b/d, the NBS data…