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The Officials: It all ends up in China!

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25 November 2024: 09:30 GMT

Netanyahu has just agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah! But the big news doesn’t stop there. Pay attention to China too! China has issued extra 8.04 million metric tons (around 160.8 thousand barrel per day) of extra crude import quotas to independent refiners for late 2024. This equates to close to 60 million bbls of extra crude imports!!! The rumor mill has been awash with indications that Totsa was buying crude in the window on behalf of Hengli, one of the independent refiners, AKA teapots. Hengli got an extra 14.5 mil bbls allocation so it makes sense. It would also make sense that somebody knew something in advance And Totsa has bought 13.5 million barrels so far this month in the window! We just put numbers together. Har har har

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