Energy Statistics for the 2nd Quarter 2009

Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the consumption of Electricity in the second quarter of 2009 totalled 883 million kWh, up notably by 32.7% quarter-to-quarter and 2.2% year-on-year. The available supply of Electricity also went up by 31.1% over the previous quarter, attributable to a 98.7% surge of imports of Electricity. In the second quarter of 2009, imports of Electricity reached 464 million kWh, bringing its relative importance to the available supply to soar from 33.5% in the first quarter to 50.7%; meanwhile, local generation of Electricity totalled 468 million kWh, down by 2.4% quarter-to-quarter. In the second quarter of 2009, imports of Gasoline rose by 13.5% over the preceding quarter to 16.9 million litres; the average price of Gasoline imports rose by 13.0% and the respective consumption increased by 4.7% to 17.0 million litres. The imports of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) totalled 8,579 tonnes, down by 27.0% quarter-to-quarter; the average price of LPG imports fell by 4.8% and the respective consumption decreased by 17.3% to 9,355 tonnes. Average selling price of fuels rose along with rebound of oil prices in the international market, with that of Fuel Oil, Common Kerosene and Unleaded Gasoline increasing by 15.2%, 12.5% and 11.1% respectively from the first quarter. At the end of the second quarter, stock of LPG was 2,591 tonnes, down by 22.5%
quarter-to-quarter to account for 53.2% of the total storage capacity.