Statistics :Energy production down, consumption up
Thursday, September 13, 2007
The main primary resources totalled 23.5 million tonnes oil equivalent in the first seven months this year, down 4.2 percent compared with the same period in 2006, due to a 2.8 percent fall in production and 6.3 percent fall in import, say data from the National Statistics Institute.The production of electricity Jan. through July stood at 35,124 million kWh, down 2.8 percent from the year-ago period.Although the production of electricity went down, in the said period consumption was 2.5 ...