TOKYO, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Japanese refiner Taiyo Oil will receive a cargo of ultra light crude oil from the Sakhalin-2 project in early January after an eight-month halt, a company spokesman said on ...

Japan's demand for oil is truly monstrous. Even if domestic oil consumption has wound down slightly in the last four decades, this one island nation consumed a staggering 151.4 million metric tons of ...

Japan and Kuwait have struck a deal to store crude oil for Southeast Asia in Japan in a bid to boost the region’s oil supply network, which is currently rather weak and vulnerable to supply outages.

Diplomats are supposed to be a tactful tribe, but in Tokyo owl-eyed Mr. Eiji Amau, famed Official Spokesman of Japan’s Foreign Office, continues to carve out of tactlessness a great career. Many ...

TOKYO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Japan is sounding out major oil refiners about buying Russian ultra light crude from the Sakhalin-2 gas and oil project to ensure that the plant can continue to operate ...

(Recasts with an annual oil imports) TOKYO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Japan's crude oil imports rose 9.7% to 2.73 million barrels per day (158.64 million kilolitres) in 2022 from a year earlier, marking a ...