Definition: Petroleum products

Category: Energy

Primary production covers natural gas liquids and other products obtained on production, purification and stabilisation of natural gas and which can be consumed without refining. By definition the production of refineries is not primary production and in Eurostat’s energy statistics is presented as Transformation output.
Source:
Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 On Energy Statistics, Joint International Energy Agency/Eurostat/United Nations Economic Commission For Europe annual questionnaire on solid fossil fuels and manufactured gases
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