China’s monthly natural gas imports from leading supplier Turkmenistan fell in November from the previous month to their lowest since December 2016, leaving Beijing increasing purchases from elsewhere to try to cope with a growing supply crunch. November imports by pipeline from Turkmenistan were 1.592 million tonnes, down 7 percent from October’s 1.71 million tonnes, customs data showed on Tuesday. That was well below this year’s peak at 2.61 million tonnes, in April, though still 11 percent higher than in the same month a year go. Overall, China imported 2.5 million tonnes of natural gas last month, up 27 percent from the same month a year earlier, led by surging supplies from Uzbekistan, Myanmar and Kazakhstan, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs. Industry sources with knowledge of China’s gas imports from the central Asian nation estimated supplies from the state-owned Turkmenistan oil […]