Azerbaijan reduces gasoline and diesel production

  20 February 2016    Read: 1102
Azerbaijan reduces gasoline and diesel production
Azerbaijan produced oil products worth AZN 178.701 mln in January 2016, down 3.3% from previous year.
According to State Statistical Committee, gasoline production made 100,200 tonnes, down 10.7% compared to a year ago. Finished products made 74,200 tonnes.

Diesel production fell 23.6% to 198,700 tonnes (finished product – 87,300 tonnes), kerosene production rose 3.1% to 59,600 tonnes (finished product – 30,600 tonnes), oil bitumen production dropped 7.8% to 10,700 tonnes (finished product – 11,100 tonnes), and lubricating oil production declined 27.3% to 800 tonnes (finished product – 15,100).

14,600 tonnes of petrol for petro-chemical industry were produced during the same period, up 3.5 times by contrast to a year earlier. Finished product made 3,500 tonnes.

Moreover, Azerbaijan produced 97,700 tonnes of furnace oil, up 488.5 times by contrast to 2015. As of February 1, 2016, the finished product stood at 5,900 tonnes.

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