The net sales (end use) of refined petroleum products in Canada decreased by 0.3 per cent to 92.8 million cubic metres last year.
The numbers were crunched by Statistics Canada who issued a report on the end use products in November of this year.
As expected, motor gasoline and diesel fuel oil made up the bulk of the sales with gasoline sales making up 47.6 per cent of all sales while diesel fuel oil sales absorbed 33.6 per cent of sales. Aviation turbo fuel accounted for 7.8 per cent of all sales and heavy fuel oils checked in at 5.7 per cent. Other products made up the rest, just over five per cent.
Sales of motor gasoline totaled 44.2 million cubic metres in Canada in 2015, up 1.4 per cent from 2014. Gasoline stations received the majority of the distributed volumes at 26.5 million cubic metres, up 2.2 per cent from the previous year. Sales to secondary distributors increased by 0.5 per cent to 9.6 million cubic metres.
While gas sales showed a healthy increase, diesel fuel oil sales sunk slightly to 31.2 million cubic metres, a drop of 0.3 per cent from 2014. Road transport and support activities, the main contributor to diesel fuel sales, decreased seven per cent to 7.6 million cubic metres.
Sales to secondary distributors of diesel fuel, edged down by just 0.2 per cent to 4.6 million cubic metres. During the same period, sales to gasoline stations decreased 7.3 per cent to 5.6 million cubic metres, while agriculture-based sales decreased 2.1 per cent to 2.3 million cubic metres.
Aviation fuel sales rose by 4.8 per cent from 2014 to 7.2 million cubic metres in 2015. Canadian airlines received the majority of distributed volumes, at 5.6 million cubic metres while sales to foreign airlines totaled one million cubic metres.
Sales of light fuel oil fell five per cent from 2014 to 2.4 million cubic metres in 2015. During this same period, sales of heavy fuel oil slid 23.1 per cent to 2.9 million cubic metres.
