Japan’s Idemitsu Kosan yet to consider resuming Iran oil imports

Japan’s second largest refiner Idemitsu Kosan said Feb. 8 it is yet to consider resuming Iranian crude oil imports, despite the recent US move to grant some sanctions relief to Tehran’s civil nuclear program. “At this moment, we do not have any plans to resume [imports of] Iranian crude oil,” Yoshitaka Onuma, general manager of Idemitsu Kosan’s finance department, told…