{"id":10357,"date":"2012-04-30T20:29:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/s-africa-crude-imports-from-iran-rise-in-march-mm\/"},"modified":"2012-04-30T20:29:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:29:14","slug":"s-africa-crude-imports-from-iran-rise-in-march-mm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-crude-imports-from-iran-rise-in-march-mm\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa crude imports from Iran rise in March m\/m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 30<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African crude oil<br \/>\nimports from Iran rose to 3.37 billion rand ($434.84 million) in<br \/>\nMarch from 2.8 billion the previous month, customs data showed<br \/>\non Monday, indicating Pretoria had not bowed to U.S. pressure to<br \/>\ncurb commercial links with Tehran.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Revenue Service said Africa&#8217;s biggest economy imported<br \/>\n505,908 tonnes of Iranian crude in March, up from 417,188 tonnes<br \/>\nthe previous month.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has come under Western pressure to cut Iranian<br \/>\ncrude imports as part of sanctions designed to halt Tehran&#8217;s<br \/>\nsuspected pursuit of nuclear weapons, although it has been<br \/>\nunclear how diplomatically non-aligned Pretoria is responding.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Imports declined between October and January, when they<br \/>\nreached zero, but have been rising again since February.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Senior energy and foreign ministry officials contradicted<br \/>\neach other in March as to the status of Iranian imports. Iran<br \/>\nhas usually been South Africa&#8217;s biggest crude supplier,<br \/>\naccounting for a quarter of its oil imports.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the March data, crude imports totalled 1.6<br \/>\nmillion tonnes, with Nigeria supplying 38 percent, Iran 32<br \/>\npercent, Saudi Arabia 22 percent and Angola the rest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The biggest South African buyer of Iranian crude used to be<br \/>\nEngen, majority-owned by Malaysian state oil group Petronas<br \/>\n, but the group said in April it had halted all imports<br \/>\nof Iranian product.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Petrochemicals group Sasol, which took 12,000<br \/>\nbarrels of Iranian oil a day, also said it had found new<br \/>\nsuppliers but has not named them. \t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Agnieszka Flak; Editing by Jon Herskovitz and<br \/>\nHelen Massy-Beresford)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South African crude oil imports from Iran rose to 3.37 billion rand ($434.84 million) in March from 2.8 billion the previous month, customs data showed on Monday, indicating Pretoria had not bowed to U.S. pressure to curb commercial links with Tehran. 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