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PH net oil imports rise 31% to $12.1 billion

The country’s net oil import bill surged 31 percent in 2018 to $12.116 billion from $9.256 billion in 2017, according to the Energy Department.

Data showed that the total oil import bill jumped 31.8 percent to $13.478 billion last year from $10.228 billion in 2017. “This was attributed to the combined effects of higher import cost and increased import volume of crude oil vis-à-vis last year,” the department said.

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Total oil import cost was made up of 54.5-percent finished products and 45.5-percent crude oil.

Total import of crude oil amounted to $6.138 billion, up by 41.8 percent from $4.330 billion in 2017 on higher cost insurance freight price of crude oil per barrel to $71.587 in 2018 from $55.774 in 2017. 

Finished product import cost went up by 24.4 percent to $7.339 billion at an average CIF cost of $75.216 per barrel from $5.9 billion at a cost of  $60.548 per barrel in 2017.

Petroleum exports earnings also rose 40 percent to $1.361 billion in 2018 from $972.5 million in 2017. Average dollar rate for 2018 was placed at P52.670 compared to 2017’s average rate of P50.834. 

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