Petroleum Products: Production and Consumption

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                             1983-84          1993-94
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                         Prodn    Cons.    Prodn    Cons
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                              (million tonnes) 
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Petroleum Products
  Liquid petroleum gas    0.51    0.74     1.31      3.10
  Petrol                  1.93    1.89     3.84      3.84
  Naptha                  3.57    2.80     4.66      3.19
  Kerosene                3.52    5.52     5.26      8.69
  Aviation turbine fuel   1.19    1.20     1.78      1.74
  High speed diesel oil  10.86   12.60    18.29     25.87
  Light diesel oil        1.08    1.09     1.47      1.36
  Furnace oil             4.58    4.20     6.16      5.71 *
  Low sulphur heavy stock 3.41    3.35     4.14      4.05 *
  Lube oil                0.47    0.62     0.48      0.69
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* for 1994-95

With the demand for middle distillates increasing, refineries have restructured their product mix to produce more of these distillates.

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