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The Ministry of Oil announced The import of petroleum products decreased by more than 50% during the last two years, while she indicated that local production is sufficient to absorb cars, generators, and everything related to power stations .
Media Director of the Petroleum Products Distribution Company, Rafid Sadiq, said, “The oil company can talk about daily consumption rates of petroleum derivatives, while production rates are the tasks of the refinery sector, and the Ministry of Oil has multiple sectors, including (refining, gas, extraction, and distribution) isolated from each other.” ” Some .”
He added, “The current production of gasoline and kerosene is approximately 30,000,000 liters per day, in addition to the increase that occurred in the past two months in kerosene for private generators,” noting that “the percentage of consumption and import two years ago for kerosene and white oil reached 50% and after the advent of the government.” Prime Minister, it fell to zero, and as for gasoline, the percentage decreased from 50% to 25%, and these percentages helped with the entry of the Holy Karbala refinery into service, the expansion of the refineries in Doura, Haditha, and Basra, and the return of the Baiji refinery to work at almost full capacity .”
He pointed out that “these factors helped reduce the level of imports from 16 million gasoline per day to about 7 million, and the numbers were similar for kerosene and white oil, and now there is no import of these two materials,” indicating that “local production is sufficient to absorb cars, generators, and everything related.” Power stations, but limited imports of gasoline remained due to the entry of some reliable projects into the unit fcc In Basra and the gasoline improvement unit in Doura, according to what was planned to reach zero imports of all petroleum derivatives .”
He explained, “There is no specific figure for the number of production, but last year more than 360,000 barrels were added to the refining capacity of the Ministry of Oil.”
