US becomes No. 2 crude supplier to South Korea in October

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Seoul-The US became the No. 2 supplier of crude to South Korea in October, overtaking traditional Middle Eastern suppliers Kuwait, Iraq and Qatar, with volumes jumping 58.1% year or year, data released Tuesday by Korea National Oil Corp. showed. South Korean refiners imported 13.884 million barrels of US crude oil in October, compared with 8.78 million barrels a year earlier, according to the customs data.