(Finance) – In the first ten months of 2022, the processing of refineries (of crude oil, foreign semi-finished products and additives) amounted to 58.5 million/tons, with an increase of 9% compared to the first ten months of 2021. This is what emerges from the data published by Unem, Unione Energie per la Mobilità, the association that brings together the main companies operating in Italy in the processing, logistics and distribution of petroleum products. The use of plants (referred to imported crude and semi-finished products) is still growing and is now equal to 78.6%.
In the first nine months of 2022, based on provisional data, the imports of finished products amounted to approximately 10.8 million tonnes with an increase (+2.4%) compared to the same period of 2021. LPG and jet fuel arrivals are on the increase, especially fuel oil is decreasing. Imports of foreign semi-finished products still show a sharp decline (-28.9%). In the same period the exports of products amounted to 21.1 million tons with an increase of 7.4% compared to the same period of 2021. Exports of fuel oil, lubricants and jet fuel are down sharply, while those of diesel, petrol, semi-finished products and virgin are on the rise naphtha.
In the first eleven months of 2022, the cost that Italy has incurred to obtain supplies of crude oil from abroad rose by 61.1% compared to the same period of 2021. An increase that is slightly shrinking but which remains very strong partly also due to theweakening of theEUR against the Dollar Use.
In the first eleven months of 2022, theItaly it imported 57.1 million tons of oil with an increase of 10.6% compared to the same period 2021. The first supplier country is now the Russia due to the particular situation of the Isab refinery (owned by Litasco-Lukoil) which for months has been importing only Russian oil as it currently has no other supply possibilities. Net of this, Russia’s weight would be limited to a few percentage points.