{"id":18213,"date":"2026-08-25T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=18213"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:00:19","slug":"japan-plans-no-crude-oil-release-from-national-reserve-in-september-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/18213\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan plans no crude oil release from national reserve in September, October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0Japan plans no additional releases of crude oil from its national reserves in September or October, Economy, Trade \u200cand Industry Minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"2\">Crude oil procurement in September is expected to fall to about 80% of last year&#8217;s average monthly volume from 100% in August, as \u2060tankers that would normally transit the Bab el-Mandeb Strait are being rerouted via the longer Suez route, he said.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"ArticleList\" data-reader-unique-id=\"5\">\n<ul role=\"list\" data-testid=\"unordered-0\" data-reader-unique-id=\"6\">\n<li data-reader-unique-id=\"7\">\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"8\">Japan expects August procurement to match last year&#8217;s monthly average, but September volumes will decline because shipments via the Suez route take about 55 days to reach Japan, compared \u200cwith \u206021 to 23 days via the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Akazawa told a press conference.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-reader-unique-id=\"9\">\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"10\">&#8220;Of the national reserves for which a release has already been decided, \u2060there remains a portion that has not been utilised due to progress in securing alternative supplies. Using that \u2060portion would ensure (September) crude oil supply equivalent to an average month last year,&#8221; Akazawa said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-reader-unique-id=\"11\">\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"12\">Japan \u2060expects crude oil procurement to return to last year&#8217;s average monthly level in October, he added.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan plans no additional releases of crude oil from its national reserves in September or October, Economy, Trade \u200cand Industry Minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Tuesday.\r\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-18213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18215,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18213\/revisions\/18215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18213"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=18213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}