RUSSIAN gasoline and gas oil exports fell 28.5 percent and 3.6 percent, respectively, in July from June, while shipments of fuel oil were up by 2.2 percent, Energy Ministry data and Reuters calculations showed.

    Russian domestic supplies of gasoline were down by 0.8 percent while local shipments of gas oil and fuel oil rose by 7.7 percent and 11.1 percent, respectively, on a monthly basis.

    Oil refinery runs rose in July by 4.5 percent, month on month, or 253,855 barrels per day (bpd), data from the Energy Ministry and Reuters calculations showed.

    The Kuibyshev oil refinery, controlled by Rosneft, was restarted in the middle of July after planned maintenance.

    Its refinery runs were 86,612 bpd in July after it stood idle in the previous month while gas oil and fuel oil production were at 95,300 tons and 145,900 tons, respectively.

    The private Antipinsky refinery, located in Tyumen, started production of 10 ppm diesel in June and began to export it via the Baltic port of Primorsk.

    Its gas oil export rose in July by 3.5 percent from the previous month to 105,000 tons.

    Russia’s second-biggest oil producer, Lukoil, launched a new, 6-million-ton crude distillation unit (CDU) at its Volgograd refinery June 25. Thanks to this, its refinery runs increased in July by 26.9 percent on a daily basis month on month to 292,018 bpd. Gas oil production rose by 29.6 percent to 383,800 tons while gas oil expors were up by 14.2 percent and totaled 267,300 tons in July.

    Compared with a year ago, Russian gasoline exports rose by 28.8 percent in July while local shipments were up 2.4 percent. Total gasoline output was up 3.9 percent to 3.276 million tons compared with 3.154 million in the same period last year.(SD-Agencies)