Last year, Ukrainian gasoline market lost a quarter of its volume. NefteRynok has decided to summarize import deliveries, as Ukraine heavily depends on products made overseas, accounting more than 80% of country’s consumption. Economic depression and low level of the purchasing power had the major effect on the gasoline market

Despite economic stagnation, Crimea annexation and the war in Donbass, LPG market remains the only fuel sector continuing to grow for the second year. In 2015 it grew up by 15% and overstepped the point of 1 mln t in the territory under control of Ukraine.

Diesel fuel market has not surrendered its positions last year. Commercial consumption of diesel fuel, on the contrary, outlined the vector to maintain and even increase of the supplies. As a result, Ukraine accumulated new players, and the fact the working tube is better than the “bottled” became evident. We have again expanded the geography of supplies, saying Namaste!* to the foreign diesel. 

In 2016, the gasoline market balance in Ukraine increased by 5.8%, from 2.06 MMt to 2.18 MMt. The positive dynamics in the volume at the background of stagnating gasoline retail has been primarily associated with the reduction of the octanes’ shadow market share.