KARACHI: The domestic oil sales have declined by 14 percent during July – February 2019/2020 due to economic slowdown.
According to statistics by Oil Companies Advisory Committee (OCAC), the domestic oil sales fell to 11.24 million tons during first eight months of current fiscal year as compared with 13.1 million tons in the corresponding period of the last fiscal year.
Analysts at Topline Securities said that the lower consumption was largely attributed to economic slowdown.
The sales of motor spirit (petrol) were flat at 5 million tons during the period under review. However, sales of furnace oil and high speed diesel fell by 33 percent and 14 percent respectively.
The analysts said that oil sale for Feb 2020 was decline by 26 percent YoY largely driven by a decline in HSD and FO volumes.
In absolute terms the decline was of 221,000 tons in HSD (-37 percent YoY). The lower consumption is largely attributed to the economic slowdown.
Ex-FO performance did not fare well as 26 percent YoY and 15 percent MoM decline is expected.
The slight uptick in FO volumes was witnessed in last month (Jan 2020) at the behest of a significant price decline. Since then FO prices have witnessed a gradual recovery.
HASCOL remained the top laggard with decline in volumes by 61 percent and 33 percent YoY and MoM, respectively.
Market share of the company in MS/HSD has declined by 430bps/810bps YoY. Similarly on MoM basis, market share is down by 160bps/250bps.
APL has gained market share in HSD and MS both by 390bps and 120bps MoM to 13.2 percent and 10.1 percent respectively.
PSO’s share in MS declined by 2.4 percent to settle at 35.4 percent. SHEL managed to maintain its market share at 11.7 percent mark in MS their main segment.
