Crude oil supplies to Ukraine's oil refineries and Shebelynka gas refinery in January-August 2014 decreased by 6.5 percent or 156,300 tonnes compared to the same period in 2013, to 2.231 million tonnes, a source in the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has told Interfax-Ukraine.
In the period, Ukrainian oil supplies to national refineries decreased by 9.3 percent, to 1.576 million tonnes, Russian oil deliveries grew by 100 percent, to 160,000 tonnes, deliveries from other countries dropped by 38.2 percent, to 145,200 tonnes, gas condensate deliveries dropped by 18.4 percent, to 334,700 tonnes and vacuum gas oil supplies soared by 3.2 times, to 15,500 tonnes.
In January-August, crude oil was supplied to Kremenchuk oil refinery (1.393 million tonnes), Odesa refinery (160,000 tonnes), Nadvirna refinery (73,400 tonnes), and Drohobych refinery (271,400 tonnes), as well as Shebelynka gas refinery (333,200 tonnes). At the same time, only Kremenchuk and Odesa oil refineries processed crude oil, as well as Shebelynka plant, while Lysychansk, Nadvirna, Drohobych refineries were idle.
Oil refineries and Shebelynka gas refinery decreased crude oil refining by 1.7 percent or by 34,300 tonnes, to 2.007 million tonnes. Odesa oil refinery resumed its operation in autumn 2013 and refined 213,000 tonnes of crude oil in 2014 and suspended its operation from March 2014. Kremenchuk oil refinery refined 1.46 million tonnes of crude oil and Shebelynka plant processed 333,200 tonnes of gas condensate.
