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China's oil product consumption up 12% in 2008
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-01-27 14:39 China's oil product consumption rose 11.9 percent last year to 215 million tons, the China Petroleum and Chemical Association said Tuesday. The growth rate was 5 percentage points higher than in 2007.
According to Zhu Fang, deputy head of the association's information and market department, refined oil product consumption grew faster than that of crude oil because imports rose in the second and third quarters. Data from the association show that last year, China imported 14.71 million tons of oil products, including gasoline, diesel oil and kerosene, up 107.4 percent. Zhu said during the first half of 2008, global oil prices soared while domestic prices were capped at a low level. In response, local refineries cut or halted production to minimize losses. That decision led to tight supplies of refined products in China and increased imports, Zhu said. A leading oil producer, PetroChina, forecast that this year China would use 379 million tons of crude oil, 64.4 million tons of gasoline, 144 million tons of diesel and 13.1 million tons of kerosene. Based on last year's consumption, those numbers would represent a rise of about 3.8 percent in crude oil use and 3 percent in product use. (For more biz stories, please visit Industries)
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