RusEnergy

24.05.2005 7:11 [Neftegaz.ru] - Russian oil refining grew 3.7% yoy to 65.42 million tonnes in January-April 2005, according to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service. The national oil major Lukoil refined 11.155 million tonnes of oil in the first four months of the year. The statistics service said gasoline production increased 5.7% year-on-year to 10.059 million tonnes in January-April, and diesel production increased 5.5% to 19.042 million tonnes. Russian refineries produced 18.777 million tonnes of heating oil in January-April, up 3.9% year-on-year; 2.43 million tonnes of aviation kerosene, up 3.5%; and 864,000 tonnes of lubricants, down 4.3%.