Oil imports down by 18 percent in 2009
Thursday, February 25, 2010
In 2009 Romania imported crude oil amounting to 6.894 million tonnes of oil equivalent, by 1,525 million tonnes of oil equivalent (18.1 percent) less than the previous year, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics. Last year the oil production totalled 4.195 million tonnes of oil equivalent and was by 4.5 percent (199,400 tonnes of oil equivalent) lower than the one in 2008. In 2008 Romania came eighth in the classification of oil producers in Europe and ...