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April 12 (Bloomberg) - reservations of oil tankers to ship the Japan fuels rose 59 percent in the three weeks after the earthquake and devastating tsunami damaged nation refineries and electricity generation plants.At least 84 ships, planned to transport the 6.2 million metric tons of fuel, have been reserved to navigate to the Japan of the Middle East, Asia and Europe, as demand for imported fuel oil and crude has elapsed, according to transmissions of ship captured by Bloomberg fixtures and the ship compiled from research Clarkson. That compares to vessels at least 53 reserved for 3.3 million tonnes of fuel in the three weeks before the earthquake, the data show. In the Japan, third largest oil user of the world and an exporter of diesel oil, close approximately 29% of its capacity of refining following the earthquake. "" It is quite a significant increase, ", said Neil Beveridge, an analyst with Sanford c. Bernstein & Co. in Hong Kong. "This has definitely been pushed by the needs of electricity generation."The country is faced with a need of refined products seeks to compensate for the lost nuclear power plants and refining capacity.The number of ships expected to transport oil tripled after the earthquake, while those carrying crude oil more than doubled, exceeding the increase in all tankers to carry other products, the data show. Lighting of crude oil increased by 14 of six, while three tankers have been reserved for transporting oil compared to no before March 11. Naphtha passed to 44 39 vessels. "" Perhaps they use domestic refineries to produce more oil, "said Beveridge of Sanford. "There is a lot of the ability to reserve some of these refineries due to declining domestic consumption."PriceBrent of future crude oil in London fell 94 cents, or exchange of 0.8 per cent, to $123.04 a barrel at Singapore 2: 29 pm on ice futures Europe. Prize won previous 24% in the quarter and rose by 45% by a year ago.The wing of Aquarius, a tanker, left the Middle East in early April and was spotted in the Indian Ocean last sailing in the Japan, ship transmissions show. The ship was hired to transport approximately 265,000 tonnes of oil in the country, Clarkson data show.The demand for oil, burned power plants and ship engines, has increased as power shortages occur across the country. The earthquake and the tsunami damaged coal, oil, gas and nuclear power plants, including the installation of Fukushima Dai-Ichi, worst Atomic accident in the world since Chernobyl site there is a quarter of a century.Japan will approximately 250,000 barrels of oil per day or 22 000 tonnes per day of liquefied natural gas to offset approximately 8,600 megawatts of nuclear capacity which has been lost his damaged nuclear power plants, Christophe BarretAnalyste, based in London Credit Agricole SA, said in a report by March 18 cargo rates for very large carriers gross travelling from the Middle East to the Japan has dropped from 27% in the three weeks after the earthquake and were Worldscale 49.79 April 4. The cost of chartering a VLCC is passed to Worldscale 54.53 yesterday.-Editors: Jane Lee, Clyde Russell.
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To contact the editor responsible for this story: Clyde Russell at crussell7@bloomberg.net
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