OIL DATA: Table Of May Japan Oil Production Data - METI

OIL DATA: Table Of May Japan Oil Production Data - METI

The following preliminary totals in kiloliters.

                    May 2009      On-Year Change
All Oil Products
Production:        15,233,445         -10.3%
Imports:            2,329,709         -11.4%
Sales:             14,338,595         -12.5%
Exports:            2,279,935         -21.0%
Inventories:       12,318,842          +6.7%

Gasoline
Production:         4,471,715          -4.9%
Imports:               61,605         +17.1%
Sales:              4,716,933          +2.2%
Exports:               13,888        +109.9%
Inventories:        2,341,488          -0.5%

Naphtha
Production:         1,643,324          -1.1%
Imports:            1,987,701          -5.2%
Sales:              3,477,913          -9.4%
Exports:                    0            NA
Inventories:        1,763,411          +5.5%

Jet Fuel
Production:         1,176,405         -20.9%
Imports:                    0            NA
Sales:                308,951         -29.6%
Exports:              799,856         -18.2%
Inventories:          897,930          +6.4%

Kerosene
Production:         1,236,830          +6.7%
Imports:                    0            NA
Sales:                827,292         -25.3%
Exports:                2,543         -96.7%
Inventories:        2,280,731         +26.0%

Gasoil
Production:         3,402,972         -10.6%
Imports:                    0            NA
Sales:              2,598,346         -10.7%
Exports:              758,742         -15.1%
Inventories:        2,090,905         +14.8%

A-Fuel Oil
Production:         1,230,871         -19.7%
Imports:                6,005          +0.7%
Sales:              1,107,685         -25.3%
Exports:               47,040         +13.3%
Inventories:        1,196,669         +15.0%

B-Fuel/C-Fuel Oil
Production:         2,071,328         -21.5%
Imports:              274,398         -42.1%
Sales:              1,301,475         -35.0%
Exports:              657,866         -26.1%
Inventories:        1,747,708         -12.6%

Inventories represent stocks at oil refineries
NA = not available
Source: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Preliminary Monthly Oil Statistics

METI Web site address: http://www.meti.go.jp

-By Mari Iwata, Dow Jones Newswires; 813-6895-7572; mari.iwata@dowjones.com

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