The amount of oil crude oil being transported to refineries in Ukraine fell by 38.7% in the first seven months of the year, a government spokesperson has said, mainly due to a sharp fall in the number of deliveries coming through Russia. In total, 3.17m tonnes of oil were transported over the period, the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Ministry has said. Supplies from Russia fell by 73%.
Over the period the amount of domestically produced oil that was processed in the refineries rose by 31.9% to 1.6m tonnes; 449,300 tonnes of Kazakh oil went through processing, a 300% increase; while deliveries from Azerbaijan stopped completely. It had sold 617,000 tonnes to Ukraine between January and July 2011.
The ministry said that the oil was refined in four of the country’s facilities, the Lisichansk refinery, The Kremenchug refinery, the Shebelinsky Gas Plant and the Drogobychsky refinery.