Consumer appetite for oil in China may not be what it was - but the country is not slowing its quest to build strategic stockpiles. On its own, the country may have accounted for more than half of the 1.1m barrels-a-day (b/d) build in non-OECD crude stocks in the fourth quarter of 2015. That marks a contrast with the numbers representing how much China is actually burning - as opposed to importing. This year, Chinese oil consumption will rise by just 331,000 b/d, or just over half the pace last year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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