Nippon Oil Corp. will reduce its oil imports from Iran in view of uncertainties over the row between that country and Western nations about its nuclear designs, company President Fumiaki Watari said Wednesday.
Nippon Oil is the first Japanese oil firm to announce a cut in oil imports from Iran, which supplies 16 percent of Japan’s oil and is the third-largest oil exporter to Japan after the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
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