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 tonnes and 145,900 tonnes, 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 percen from the previous month to 105,000 tonnes. Russia's second-biggest oil producer, Lukoil, launched a new, six-million-tonne crude distillation unit (CDU) at its Volgograd refinery on 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 tonnes, while gas oil expors were up by 14.2 percent and totalled 267,300 tonnes in July.
Kirishi refinery, owned by Surgutneftegaz, stopped its hydrocracker unit for planned maintenance from June 25 to August 15. As a result its gasoline and gas oil production fell in July by 14.9 percent and 25.4 percent, respectively, and fuel oil production in Kirishi rose by 6.8 percent compared to the June. Gasoline and gas oil exports from Kirishi fell in July by 22.6 percent both to 80,000 tonnes and 360,000 tonnes, respectively, but fuel oil export shipments were up by 10 percent from the previous month to 680,000 tonnes.