China is the world's largest crude importer yet stopped publishing its strategic petroleum reserve figures years ago. Why the opacity is deliberate, and how analysts estimate a reserve Beijing won't confirm.
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Energy buying is long, technical and committee-led, and in 2026 most of it happens before a supplier is ever contacted. This is the practitioner playbook for using LinkedIn and social selling to reach an energy buying group that researches in the dark, from expert-led thought leadership and employee
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Because the group is trying to do two things at once that pull in opposite directions: regain market share by returning barrels, and avoid crashing the price into a market that the International Energy Agency expects to be oversupplied in 2026. After unwinding cuts quickly in 2025, the seven core co
China entered 2026 adding an estimated 1.24 million barrels a day to its oil reserves, then the Hormuz crisis flipped it from builder to buffer: imports fell to 7.8 million barrels a day and China drew on its 1.4 billion barrel stockpile instead of buying the spike. What the flows show, and when building resumes.
China clears the IEA's 90-day emergency stockholding benchmark on most estimates, holding 110 to 180 days of cover, but it is not an IEA member, the figures are measured differently, and Beijing publishes nothing. How to read the comparison.
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