(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) The Sultanate of Oman's petrol production dropped 12.9% in January year-on-year with output down to 6.07 million barrels compared to 6.97 million barrels last year, according to the latest data released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
The total petrol output last year stood at 85.96 million bbl, Oman Daily Observer said Sunday citing an Oman News Agency report.
The Sultanate produced 389,700 barrels of Regular 90 petrol in January, logging a significant 74.3% rise over the output in the same month last year, which stood at 223,500 bbl. At the same time, Super 95 petrol production plummeted 17.5% to 1.46 million bbl from 1.77 million bbl in 2015.
Last year's aggregate output by Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Co (Orpic) of Regular and Super petrol stood at 2.02 million bbl and 23.34 million bbl respectively.
Regular petrol accounted for just 2% of Orpic's total petroleum products output, while super petrol had a share of 28%. Meanwhile, there was a marked increase of 11.3% in the production of jet fuel (aviation fuel) in January, which surged to 436,400 bbl from 392,100 bbl in the same month last year.
Gas oil output too recorded a fall of 8.3% to 1.62 million bbl compared with 1.77 million bbl last year, the report said.
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