MOSCOW: Russian gasoline, gas oil and fuel oil exports rose in the first 26 days of January compared to the first 29 days of December, preliminary data provided by the Energy Ministry showed.

Russia exported 117,221 tonnes per day of gas oil in January, up by 15.2 percent from 101,728 tonnes per day in December, the data showed.

Gas oil exports fell by 0.2 percent versus January 2010, when the country exported 117,466 tonnes of the product per day.

Local supplies were down 17.4 percent compared with December but up 10.8 percent versus the same month of last year.

Gas oil supplied to the domestic market totalled 71,414 tonnes per day compared with 64,432 tonnes per day the same month last year.

Fuel oil exports in January rose 5.3 percent and totalled 150,415 tonnes per day compared with 142,783 tonnes per day in December, while domestic shipments stood at 37,288 tonnes per day, down 13.5 percent month-on-month.

In year-on-year, terms domestic supplies were down by 29.3 percent and exports were up 19.9 percent.

In January Russia exported 16,819 tonnes of gasoline per day, up by 111.7 percent compared with December. Local shipments of gasoline averaged 81,911 tonnes per day, down 11.3 percent month-to-month.

Domestic supplies of gasoline in January were up by 10.7 percent versus the same month last year, while exports fell by 12.3 percent.

Copyright Reuters, 2011

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