Rio de Janeiro – Natural gas consumption increased by 6.83% in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period of 2011. The figures were culled from a survey issued this Wednesday (2nd) by the Brazilian Association of Piped Gas Distributing Companies (Abegás).
The survey also points out that in March, average daily piped gas consumption reached 50.8 million cubic metres, 13.7% higher than in the same month of last year.
After a period of stable consumption volume, sales of natural gas for automobile fuelling purposes increased again, by 2.72% from February to March, by 3.79% March-on-March, and 1.28% in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period of 2011.
In March, Southeast Brazil remained the leading natural gas consuming region in the country, at 35.4 million cubic metres per day. Next come the Northeast, at 8 million cubic metres, and the South, at 4.5 million.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
