Decrease in sales of 6 per cent in December 2018

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Total sales of petroleum products in December amounted to 598 million liters.

Written by: Britt Helen Hagerud Aulie / Sigrun Kristoffersen

Sales of motor gasoline ended at 83 million litres, a decrease of 3 million liters as in December 2017. Sales of diesel amounted to 232 million litres, a 10 million litre decrease, according to updated figures from Sales of petroleum products.

Preliminary figures for 2018 show that total sales of petroleum products increased by 74 million liters compared with the corresponding figures for 2017.

1 Includes aviation gasoline and bitumen (road oil).

Figure 1. Sals of petroleumsproducts so far this year, January to December, by product in million liters

2016 2017 2018
Other petroleum products¹ 410 444 468
Heating oils and heating and lighting kerosene 224 210 149
Heavy fuel oil 97 120 113
Jet fuel 1075 1141 1169
Marine gas oil and diesel 1349 1234 1298
Diesel, free of duty 906 894 972
Auto diesel 3104 3038 3019
Motor gasoline 1154 1125 1092

1 Includes aviation gasoline and bitumen (road oil).

Figure 2. Deliveries of petroleum products in December by product

Other petroleum products¹ Heating oils and heating and lighting kerosene Heavy fuel oil Jet fuel Marine gas oil and diesel Diesel, free of duty Auto diesel Motor gasoline
2002 3 157 70 81 137 50 122 185
2003 6 115 63 60 128 43 127 178
2004 8 85 60 63 129 50 145 183
2005 6 75 60 72 145 53 156 173
2006 10 58 66 62 131 51 160 157
2007 7 72 61 66 140 75 176 149
2008 13 61 53 65 143 66 190 149
2009 10 70 46 75 137 64 200 137
2010 1 102 44 85 134 83 223 130
2011 11 39 35 76 134 64 219 114
2012 1 48 34 58 125 78 228 103
2013 10 31 25 79 131 92 221 99
2014 12 28 20 102 115 76 243 96
2015 8 24 9 76 112 68 243 89
2016 14 21 7 77 86 74 244 85
2017 17 19 11 83 100 79 242 86
2018 11 13 9 84 90 77 232 83

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