*Saudi Arabia held off Russia to remain China’s top crude supplier for 2022, latest Chinese official import figures show. But it went down to the wire, with imports from Saudi at 1.749mn b/d only just ahead of the 1.723mn b/d from Russia. Whilst the Saudi figure was down fractionally on 2021’s record figure of 1.752mn b/d, Russia was up 8% to set a new record (see chart and table for full data).