BEIJING, March 3 (Reuters) - Sinopec Corp plans to raise retail sales of refined oil products this year by 6 percent, recovering most of the declines in 2009, a report by a company newspaper showed on Wednesday.
Retail sales of refined fuel by the top refiner in Asia declined 6.18 percent to 78.9 million tonnes last year from 2008, preliminary company data has shown.
Sinopec's total sales of refined fuel inched up 0.85 percent to 124.02 million tonnes in 2009.
Sinopec aims to increase turnover of non-fuel businesses by 50 percent from levels in 2009, the China Petrochemical News reported.
The report did not say how much its non-fuel businesses sold in 2009.
(Reporting by Jim Bai and Chen Aizhu; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
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Retail sales of refined fuel by the top refiner in Asia declined 6.18 percent to 78.9 million tonnes last year from 2008, preliminary company data has shown.
Sinopec's total sales of refined fuel inched up 0.85 percent to 124.02 million tonnes in 2009.
Sinopec aims to increase turnover of non-fuel businesses by 50 percent from levels in 2009, the China Petrochemical News reported.
The report did not say how much its non-fuel businesses sold in 2009.
(Reporting by Jim Bai and Chen Aizhu; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
((Email: jim.bai@thomsonreuters.com; Reuters Messaging: jim.bai.reuters.com@reuters.net; + 86 10 6627 1271)) Keywords: SINOPEC FUEL/SALES (If you have a query or comment on this story, send an email to news.feedback.asia@thomsonreuters.com) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.