Draw Media

# There are about 1.9 million vehicles in the Kurdistan Region, of which 51% are in Erbil, 34% in Sulaimani and 15% in Duhok.

# The Kurdistan Region needs (5 million) liters of gasoline daily, Erbil (2.5 million), Sulaimani (1.6 million) and Duhok (754 thousand) liters of gasoline.

# Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) oil refineries can produce more than 8.6 million liters of gasoline per day if they use all their capacity and are given crude oil.

# The crude oil supplied by the Kurdistan Regional Government to the refineries in the first three months of this year, the average daily was (3.9 million) liters, (21%) of gasoline produced, which only (835 thousand) liters and that is only (17%) of domestic demand.

first; Number and type of vehicles, Gasoline requirements in the provinces of the Kurdistan Region

According to the statistics of the General Directorate of Traffic of the Kurdistan Region, there are more than (1 million 915 thousand) vehicles in the three provinces of the Kurdistan Region. In addition to (19,000) vehicles without license plates and vehicles of the Ministry of Peshmerga that are not registered in the statistics.

Most of these vehicles run on gasoline and a small part on diesel. According to former Minister of Natural Resources Kamal Atroshi, the Kurdistan Region needs 5 million liters of gasoline daily, of which only about 1 million liters produced domestically and the rest is imported.

If the Kurdistan Region needs (5 million) liters of gasoline daily, then Erbil province will need (2 million 571 thousand 409) liters of gasoline daily, Sulaimani province needs (1 million 674 thousand 609) liters of gasoline and Duhok province needs (753 thousand 981) liters of gasoline daily.

second; The capacity of the Kurdistan Regional Government's oil refineries to produce gasoline

Currently, there are four official refineries in the Kurdistan Region, together they have the capacity to refine 256,000 barrels of crude oil daily to produce fuel and energy needs.

1. Kar refinery (Kalak or Keurgosk)

2. Bazian Refinery

3. Lanaz Refinery

4. Tawke Refinery

However, it should be noted that the crude oil refined in the Kurdistan Region generally produces 21.23% of gasoline per barrel - relatively and can vary according to the type of oil.

Therefore, all the oil refineries in the region, which are (4) refineries, if they work at their full capacity and refine (256,000) barrels of crude oil per day - if a barrel of crude oil is (159) liters - as identified in the World Standard_ the refineries will have the capacity to refine 40 million 704 thousand liters of crude oil per day, of which if 21.23% of their production is gasoline, it means that they can produce 8 million 641 thousand 459 liters of gasoline. That is 3 million 641 thousand 459 liters more than the domestic demand.

Third; KRG support for oil refineries to meet domestic needs

According to the latest Deloitte oil audit report published in July 2022, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), in the first three months of this year, has delivered only 2 million 226 thousand 83 barrels of crude oil were to refineries.

Which means, it has delivered 24,734 barrels of crude oil daily to the refineries. If each barrel of crude oil is 159 liters according to international standards, the subsidy is 3 million 932,747 liters of crude oil If 21.23 percent of the gasoline is produced in the refineries, only 834,922 liters will remain to meet all domestic needs, which is less than one-fifth and meets 17 percent of demand.