SAUDIS OIL FOR JAPAN

REUTERS - Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, will supply full contractual volumes of crude to a North Asian refiner in January, unchanged from the previous month, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday.

The country supplied full contractual volumes of crude to at least three North Asian refiners for December loading. But it trimmed supplies to at least three Japanese buyers and one in South Korea by up to 10 percent across different Saudi crude grades for November loading as maintenance at oilfields reduced output.

State oil company Saudi Aramco last week raised prices for all crude oil grades to Asia in January.

It was not immediately clear if Aramco would keep supplies steady to other buyers in the region.

At least one North Asian refiner had not received its monthly allocation yet, a source familiar with the matter said, but added that Saudi Arabia was seen as willing to meet buyers' demand.

All sources declined to be identified as they were not authorised to speak with media.

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Earlier:

2017, October, 16, 11:35:00 JAPAN LNG INVESTMENT The Japanese government will offer $10 billion to support firms bidding to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure around Asia, the Nikkei business daily said on Monday.

2017, October, 13, 12:45:00 JAPAN - INDIAN LNG India will work with Japan to make long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) import deals more affordable for its price-sensitive consumers, it said on Wednesday, as these two big importers try to secure better prices and concessions from suppliers.

2017, September, 11, 12:20:00 SAUDI ADD TO JAPAN Oil giant Saudi Aramco will on Wednesday add 1.9 million barrels (300,000 kilolitres) of crude to storage that it holds in Japan, a Japanese trade ministry official said.

2017, May, 31, 17:35:00 QATAR - JAPAN LNG TALKS Qatar faces rising competition from a tide of new LNG from sources including Australia, which is expected to surpass it as the world's top exporter by 2019.

2017, March, 14, 18:30:00 SAUDI - JAPAN TALKS Trade between the countries fell overall last year as oil prices dropped. Japan's 2.1 trillion yen ($18.6 billion) in imports from Saudi Arabia in 2016, mostly oil and gas, dwarfed its exports of 546.3 billion yen ($4.8 billion).

2017, February, 8, 18:55:00 SAUDI'S OIL FOR JAPAN Saudi Arabia's crude oil supplies to Japan rose to a 10-year high in 2016, underlining the kingdom's strong will to defend its share in the ever competitive Asian markets.

2017, January, 13, 18:55:00 INDIA - JAPAN COOPERATION India and Japan should co-operate on long term contracts for LNG with a defined cost of energy which would provide a stabilizing factor for the renewable energy thrust that India is currently giving, Indian minister for power, coal, new & renewable energy and mines, Piyush Goyal said January 11 on the side-lines of the seventh India-Japan Energy Forum in New Delhi.