31.   Under a longstanding deal with the oil companies, Japan let them sell gas at high prices in return for turning out cheap refined oil for Japanese industry.

32.   When the market for refined oil products improves, they said it would consider selling all or part of Phibro Energy USA.

33.   All of that will now be exported, while the country will import refined oil products.

34.   Despite being an oil producer, Vietnam currently has no oil refineries and must import refined oil products for its domestic needs.

35.   However, according to official sources, reserves of refined oil and gasoline are sufficient for several months.

36.   Import of refined oil for irrigation purposes has caused the slump in LPG production, BPC sources said.

37.   In the early years of World War II, Romania allied with the Germans and supplied the Nazis with large amounts of refined oil products.

38.   Other companies can import refined oil products directly but only if they secure a special permit from the government.

39.   One set higher tariffs on imported refined oil products than on imported crude oil in an attempt to encourage companies to build refineries in the Philippines.

40.   Refined oil imports continued to decline.