{"id":50,"date":"2025-11-01T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asgarzade.sitedar.com\/yancotrd\/en\/?p=50"},"modified":"2025-11-01T13:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:03:41","slug":"south-koreas-iranian-oil-imports-up-8-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/2025\/11\/01\/south-koreas-iranian-oil-imports-up-8-times\/","title":{"rendered":"South Koreas Iranian Oil Imports Up 8 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figures released by South Korea\u2019s customs office also showed that the country\u2019s imports from Iran for 2016 more than doubled from 2015 levels.<br \/>\nSouth Korea is one of Iran\u2019s major oil customers. Seoul imported 14 million tons, or 281,187 bpd, of crude from Tehran in 2016, up 145.4 percent from 5.7 million tons, or 114,595 bpd, in 2015, Reuters reported.<br \/>\nFigures also show that the world\u2019s fifth-largest crude importer brought 1.55 million tons of Iranian crude in December, or 367,317 barrels per day (bpd), compared with 207,629 tons a year ago and 1.73 million tons in the previous month.<br \/>\nIn November, South Korea\u2019s Iranian crude imports more than quadrupled from a year earlier as Hyundai Chemical\u2019s new condensate splitter boosted the country\u2019s ultra-light oil demand from Iran, Reuters added.<br \/>\nEarlier, official figures showed that Seoul\u2019s imports of oil from Iran in the third quarter of 2016 had doubled compared to the same period the previous year.<br \/>\nIran had been one of the biggest crude oil exporters to South Korea.  South Korea imported $9.36 billion worth of crude from Iran before the implementation of US-engineered sanctions against the Islamic Republic in 2011.  The sanctions \u2013 that were in place until the end of 2015 \u2013 lowered the imports of Iranian crude to $2.27 billion.<br \/>\nPublish Date : 2017\/01\/19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figures released by South Korea\u2019s customs office also showed that the country\u2019s imports from Iran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yancotrd.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}