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

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.