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Iran's energy consumption ups by 164 million barrels of OE

Oil&Gas Materials 4 March 2015 13:39 (UTC +04:00)
Iran's actual primary energy consumption rose significantly, despite dropping liquid fuels consumption, according to the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company report covering the last fiscal year's energy statistics released Mar 3,
Iran's energy consumption ups by 164 million barrels of OE

Dalga Khatinoglu

Iran's actual primary energy consumption rose significantly, despite dropping liquid fuels consumption, according to the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company report covering the last fiscal year's energy statistics released Mar 3.

Iran's fiscal year starts on March 21.

The report says that the consumption level of all kind of primary energy carriers increased, with the exception of kerosene and fuel oil.

The overall actual energy consumption during the mentioned period reached 1,546 million barrels of oil equivalent (OE).

The 316-page report says that Iran's primary energy consumption increased more than 155 percent during the last decade. However, the report doesn't take into account energy wasted by flaring gas, gas re-injections, etc.

The amount of flaring gas in Iran reaches 32 million cubic meters per day (mcm/d), while about 77 to 90 mcm/d is re-injected to old oil wells.

However, the Iranian officials statements, as well as some released official statistics indicate that the country's gas consumption increased by 16 bcm during eleven months of the current fiscal year, while the consumption of liquid fuels decreased by 14 percent in total.

The amount of consumed various primary energy carriers

Natural gas

Liquid petroleum gas

Gasoline

Kerosene

diesel

Fuel oil

Jet fuel

Current year

465 mcm/d

5,800 ton/d

70 ml/d

9.7 ml/d

101 ml/d

38 ml.d

4.1 ml.d

Last year

422.1 mcm/d

5,700 ton/d

68.4 ml/d

11.9 ml/d

105.4 ml/d

50.8 ml/d

4.1 ml/d

Two years ago

415.4 mcm/d

6,000 ton/d

63.5 ml/d

12.3 ml/d

97.2 ml/d

51.7 ml/d

3.3 ml/d

The amount of consumed various primary energy carriers (per day) based on thousand barrels of oil equivalent

Natural gas

Liquid petroleum gas

Gasoline

Kerosene

diesel

Fuel oil

Jet fuel

Total

Current year

3,008.5

47.8

400

57

619

242

27

4,401

Last year

2,731

47

391

70

646

324

27

4,237

Two years ago

2,688

49

363

73

596

330

22

4,121

The report also says that the country's refineries consumed 1.859 million barrels of oil per day during last year, indicates 58,000 barrels increase on year. There is not any official statistics about the crude oil consumption level of Iran's refineries during the current year, but according to the latest report, published by Shana citing on Iran's Anti-Contraband And Currency Smuggling Headquarters, the country's liquid fuels production level have been decreased by 5 percent during the ten months of current fiscal year.

A glance at Iran's four major liquid fuels' statistics during last fiscal year

Production

Consumption

Imports

Exports

Liquid petroleum gas

5506 ton/d

5666 ton/d

-

-

Gasoline

56.9 ml/d

68.4 ml/d

3.5 ml/d

-

Kerosene

12.5 ml/d

11.9 ml/d

-

-

diesel

97.7 ml/d

105.4 ml/d

6.1 ml/d

215.612 mt/a

Fuel oil

77.5 ml/d

50.8 ml/d

0

8.58 mt/a

Iran's liquid fuel bunkering volume also reached 2.97 million tons per annum during last year. The country also swapped about 1.96 mt/a of liquid fuels during the mentioned time. The country's Compressed natural gas (CNG) also decreased from 19 mcm/d to 18.3 mcm/d during last year, but it reportedly resumed to 19 mcm/d in current year.

Edited by CN

Dalga Khatinoglu is an expert on Iran's energy sector, head of Trend Agency's Iran news service.

Follow him on @dalgakhatinoglu

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