R ES E A R C H & A N A LYS I S
ANALYZING EGYPT’S PETROLEUM
TRANSPORTATION PATH
BY AMINA HUSSEIN, REHAM GAMAL, AND TASNEEM MADI
Transporting hydrocarbon products, from fields to refineries to The end number users, plays of railways a tanks transporting petroleum products has d vital role in facilitating both upstream and downstream activities. Globally, 27% from there 1,386 areto 1,101 in FY 2014/15 and FY 2018/19, respectively. On a various means of transporting petroleum products including Railway average, tanks, pipelines, 1,236 railways tanks are available to transport petroleum produc coastal tankers, and trucks. Likewise, Egypt depends on a variety had the of highest means and share of the total number of railways tankers. In fact, on a channels to transport petroleum products on both domestic and international 502 tanks are levels. used to transport diesel, annually. On the other hand, gasoli lowest share of railway tanks with an annual average of 124 tanks. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2018/19, the SUMED pipeline came on the top of these channels as it transported around 41% of Egypt’s petroleum products. Other pipelines came secondas it transported 37.2%of nationalpetroleum products. Furthermore, trucks, tankers, and railways transported 18%, 3.5%, and 0.2% of Egypt’s petroleum products, respectively, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics’ (CAPMAS) Annual Bulletin of Petroleum Materials Means of Transportation and Natural Gas in Egypt 2018/2019. Jet Fuel This report tracks the developments of transporting petroleum products in Egypt Mazut over the period from FY 2014/15 to FY 2018/19 mainly using the CAPMAS’s annual bulletins of Petroleum Materials Means of Transportation and Natural Gas in Egypt.
Transported Petroleum Products' Share in Number of Tanks
26.3%
22.2%
41.3%
MAIN TRANSPORTATION CHANNELS
Diesel
10.2%
1. RAILWAYS
Gasoline Over the referred period, the number of railways tanks, along with their respective capacities, and the quantity of petroleum products transported (by the railway tanks) exhibited a continuous declining trend.
Petroleum Products Transportation Capacity of Tanks (mmt)
Number of Petroleum Products Railway Tanks
1,386
1,386
1,379
1,014
0.06
0.06
2014/15
2015/16
0.05
0.04
0.04
2017/18
2018/19
1,014 FY FY
2014/15
2015/16
2016/17
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2017/18
2018/19
2016/17