Nippon Oil sees July crude refining down 24 pct y/y

TOKYO, June 29 (Reuters) - Nippon Oil Corp 5001.T plans to refine 3.37 million kilolitres of crude oil in July to meet domestic demand, down 24 percent from a year earlier, a company executive said on Monday.

That is above its earlier plan to refine 3.30 million kl (670,000 barrels per day) next month, down 25 percent.

Its June crude refining volume for domestic demand was estimated at 3.00 million kl, down 6 percent from a year earlier. That would be lower than its original plan to refine 3.06 million kl in the month, Senior Vice President Masahito Nakamura told reporters. (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori)