UK oil consumption still increasing
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• Figures published by Petroleum Information Bureau show that oil consumption in the United Kingdom continues to rise. Demand during the first nine months of 1968 amounted to 60,091,579 tons (exclusive of bunker fuel supplied to ships in the foreign trade) compared with 56,668,819 tons in the same period of 1967—an increase of 6 per cent.
Predominant in demand was that group of products which comprises gas/diesel oil and fuel oils. Total consumption of these products amounted to 28,225,443 tons (excluding a further 3,688,104 tons of fuel oils burned in the refineries themselves).
Uninterrupted growth in road transport requirements led to higher consumption both of motor spirit and dery fuel. Motor spirit deliveries rose by 5.5 per cent—very much in keeping with the trend established in earlier years—and accounted for 9,674,582 tons of the entire UK requirements. Dery demand. increased by 6.7 per cent to reach 3,385,655 tons.