In the first nine months of the year, Romania imported an amount of gas by a 19.2% lower than in the same period last year, according to data published on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS), Agerpres reports.

Domestic gas production was also down by 4.3%.

Of the total gas resources, of 6.8 million tons of oil equivalent (toe), domestic production was 5.1 million toe, and imports, 1.6 million toe, representing 23.5% of the total.

In contrast, crude oil imports increased by 25% to 6.4 million toe, while the amount of imported petroleum products fell by 22% to 2.3 million toe.

Agerpres