How many litres / pounds of aviation Jet fuel was produced last year (2006) in the World?

Question

I need to have the source of information too for future reference

Answer 1

Not a complete answer to what you were asking, but if you were to look at a particular fuel supplier it may be easier to find how much they produced in a particular year.

Air BP has fuelling operations at over 170 airports globally. Each year highly trained and dedicated staff re-fuel more than 1.5 million aircraft, delivering over 10 billion litres of fuel.

So, one company supplies on average about 10 billion liters, or 2,641,720,510 gallons of fuel each year.

Answer 2

Oddly enough, half the questions I seem to answer in the forum I know the most about seem to along the lines of "I don't have an answer and here's why,...."

This is one of them.

The easy and quick answer is that there's too much data, too widespread, to simply haul out and colate.

The long answer follows.
The easiest way to calculate that answer if you ever get numbers, is going to be along the lines of a bbl of jet fuel = 44 gals, a gal = approx 6.77 lbs/gal.

The problem is that to get the actual number, you need to calculate the output of jet fuel by every single refinery in the world, according to your question.

A side question is gallons produced, or gallons actually purchased for aviation. Aviation consumption has it's own caveats, with FBO's selling fuel to anyone willing to purchase it for the space heater in their hangar. The difference between production and delivery is the fact that pigs are no longer used to seperate product in pipelines that deliver a number of different products ranging from camping stove fuel to 85-90 gear oil with gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and home heating oil along the way.

Where one product stops being pumped, another is started without seperation and the mixed product between the various pure products is sold to industrial facilitys that largely only care if they purchase something liquid and flammable.

Actual production could only be monitored by looking at the extensive records kept by the larger stock exchanges and making a guess as to the production of smaller refineries in economic climates where such records aren't important.

To my knowledge, there isn't really even a database for anyone to track the total fuel sales or in-company into-plane deliveries for just the FBO's in the US and the airlines in the US.

You can probably get a fair idea of how much oil was produced globally, and Exxon-Mobil or Chevron should be able to give you a fair idea of what percentage of oil becomes jet fuel. The problem with that is that varying countries with smaller, independent refineries, have greater demands for gasoline or diesel, or heavy fuel oil than America does for jet fuel, which (thanks to molecular cracking,) means that the percentage of jet fuel produced per gallon of oil can vary depending on the demands of the plant and the region it's in.

Even in the US, it would be difficult to put a total number of production gallons together. The major US suppliers at the moment are Exxon, Chevron and AvFuels, but there are brands you've never heard of. All the brands you've heard of, and haven't heard of, sell fuel that doesn't make their spec but still falls within the requirements of ATA pub. 103 to bulk purchase companies such as Colt or Best Aeronet.

So, since it doesn't meet company spec, it will likely be listed under some other heading, despite being jet fuel acceptable for operation in the market it's sold in.

Several different types of jet fuel murk the waters up a bit more; there's a difference, however slight, between Jet A and JP-5, or JP-4, or JP-8. There's a difference between Jet A and Jet A-1, Jet B is aviation kerosene that's wide cut with gasoline, yet still considered jet fuel.

Most modern jets will satisfactorily operate on about anything petroleum based and flammable for emergency operations, that substance, ranging from camping stove fuel to diesel, from marine heavy fuel oil to refrigerator oil. As soon as the decision is made, (such as medivac flights into the Sahara with King Airs,) to use whatever will burn, the petroleum product in question becomes jet fuel.

I'd do a google search for PR at Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Air BP and the like to get their production and use that to back my explanation as to why it's bloody impossible to get a precise number.

Good Luck

Answer 3

Just exactly enough to make all the flights worldwide and have some left over for next trip.

Answer 4

FYI the fuel used for aviation is called kerosene and it's a hydrocarbon.