China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), the leading Chinese refiner and an importer of LNG from Australia, the US, Qatar and elsewhere and with expanding import facilities and storage, reported a drop in net profits of nearly 9 percent as a “rapid” first-quarter increase in natural gas demand was offset by oil refining costs and losses in chemicals.
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