Rio de Janeiro – Fuel consumption in Brazil amounted to a combined 136.2 billion litres in 2013, up 5% from 129.6 billion litres in 2012. The figures have been released this Wednesday (12th) by the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP, in the Portuguese acronym) during the 9th Assessment Seminar for Oil Products and Biofuels, held at the ANP’s central office in Rio de Janeiro.
Diesel consumption was up 4.6% to 58.4 billion litres and biodiesel sales were up 5.9% to 2.9 billion litres. Regular gasoline sales stood at 41.3 billion litres, up 4.2% from 2012.
As a result of the increase from 20% to 25% in the amount of ethanol added to gasoline, the demand for anhydrous ethanol was up 30.2%. Consumption of hydrous ethanol, which is used directly as fuel, was up 9.5% to 10.7 billion in 2013. As a whole, consumption of ethanol (anhydrous and hydrous) was up 18.8% to 21.1 billion litres.
ANP figures show that sales of liquefied petroleum gas were up 2.7% to 13.2 billion litres. Fuel oil consumption was up 26.8% to 4.9 billion litres.
The only two oil products whose consumption declined were aviation kerosene, down 0.9% to 7.2 billion litres, and compressed natural gas, down 3.7% to 5.1 million cubic metres per day in 2013.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
