Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 2
By Fatih Karimov - Trend: Weekly liquid fuel consumption in Iran decreased to 894 million liters.
During the week ended on Jan. 30, some 894 million liters of liquid fuel (gas oil and fuel oil) were consumed in the country, showing 112 million liters decline compared to its preceding week, Iran's Shana news agency reported on Feb. 2.
Some 90.857 million liters of gas oil and some 36.814 million liters of fuel oil were consumed on average per day during the mentioned week.
Mansour Riyahi, Deputy Managing Director of National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company, said on Jan. 8 that some 260 million liters of gasoline, kerosene, gas oil, fuel oil, and liquefied gas were consumed on average per day in the country since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2014).
He also said that 19-20 million cubic meters of CNG was consumed per day, which has reduced the same amount of gasoline consumption.
The volume of natural gas delivered to power plants rose by 32 percent, leading to a decline in liquid fuel consumption in power plants, he noted.
Edited by CN