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Table 2
Heavy fuel oil demand by sector in petajoules, Canada, 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005

  1990 1995 2000 2005 1990 1995 2000 2005
petajoules percent of total
Pulp and paper 97.6 58.7 56.7 47.8 23.3 19.4 16.1 12.3
Petroleum refining consumption 40.0 38.5 39.9 31.6 9.5 12.7 11.4 8.1
Primary metal industries 20.0 15.2 14.8 18.5 4.8 5.0 4.2 4.8
Mining and oil and gas extraction 14.9 16.5 15.0 12.5 3.6 5.5 4.3 3.2
Transformed to electricity by utilities 137.1 80.6 110.1 126.5 32.7 26.7 31.3 32.7
Marine transportation 60.1 56.6 67.8 67.5 14.3 18.7 19.3 17.4
Other 49.7 36.4 46.9 83.0 11.8 12.0 13.4 21.4
Total
419.5
302.4
351.2
387.3
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM tables 128-0002 and 128-0009.