2 Sep 2011 14:21

Supply of oil to Russian refineries up 4.7% in 8 mths

MOSCOW. Sept 2 (Interfax) - Total supply of oil to Russian refineries increased by 4.7% year-on-year to 168.53 million tonnes in January-August 2011, the Fuel and Energy Central Dispatch Service said.

Russian oil refineries received 21.988 million tonnes of crude in August.

Total supply of to Rosneft's refineries in the eight months came to 33.517 million tonnes (4.349 million tonnes in August), Lukoil - 30.35 million tonnes (3.944 million tonnes), TNK-BP Holding - 16.14 million tonnes (2.092 million tonnes), Bashneft - 14.075 million tonnes (1.783 million tonnes), Surgutneftegas - 14.104 million tonnes (1.71 million tonnes) and Gazprom Neft - 20.933 million tonnes (2.875 million tonnes).

The Mozyr Oil Refinery in Belarus received 5.458 million tonnes of crude in January-August (920,000 tonnes in August) and the Naftan refineries - 5.982 million tonnes (826,000 tonnes). Supplies of oil to the Lisichansk Refinery in Ukraine reached 3.061 million tonnes (350,000 tonnes in August).