October 5 (SeeNews) - Romania's energy output through August fell by an annual 2.6% to 15.789 million tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE), the National Statistics Institute (INS) said on Friday.
Energy imports fell by an annual 3.2% in the period to almost 11.376 million TOE, INS said in a statement.
A TOE is the rounded-off amount of energy that would be produced by burning one metric tonne of crude oil.
Details follow (percentage change, year-on-year):
|
|
8-mo Output |
8-mo Imports |
Total |
| Coal |
+4.5 |
+45 |
+15.0 |
| Oil |
+2.7 |
-11.0 |
-6.2 |
| Natural Gas |
-6.3 |
-16.2 |
-9.6 |
| Hydro and Nuclear Power |
-12.2 |
+35.3 |
-10.8 |
| Imported Oil Products |
n/a |
-0.2 |
-0.2 |
Energy breakdown by sources (million tonnes of oil equivalent):
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8-mo'07 |
| Coal |
6.48 |
| Oil |
8.57 |
| Natural Gas |
9.13 |
| Hydro and Nuclear Power |
1.96 |
| Imported Oil Products |
0.68 |
Electricity generated in Romania and imports totalled 40.59 billion KWh in the period, down by 2.7% on the year, as domestic power production fell by 3.3%.
Exports of electricity in the first eight months of 2007 fell by 41.1% year-on-year, or by a net 1.47 billion KWh.