Energy use up 2.7% in first 9 months
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Energy consumption in the first nine months of this year rose 2.7 per cent to 2,646 thousand barrels per day (kbd) of crude oil equivalent.
Energy production dropped 0.6 per cent, while net imports climbed 7.8 per cent in the period. Crude-oil imports ran at 882kbd, according to the Energy Policy and Planning Office.
Consumption of refined oil was up 1.8 per cent to 142 million litres per day.
Most of that was diesel at 59.8 million litres, followed by petrol at 26 million litres.
The use of liquefied petroleum gas fell 9.4 per cent to 564,000 tonnes per month.
Production of electricity gained by 2.5 per cent to 144,045 gigawatt-hours and its consumption by 3.2 per cent to 130,800GWh.
