STATISTICAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Date: 01 June 2015
• Published date: 01 June 2015
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/oet.12257

STATISTICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Crude oil and NGL production

Provisional estimates for OPEC crude oil production in

April 2015 totaled 30.3 mn bpd. For the 12 members of

OPEC, natural gas liquids (NGL) production for April

was 5.6 mn bpd, bringing total combined product ion of

crude oil and NGL to 35.9 mn bpd, 0.7 mn bpd or 2.0%

higher than the gure for April 2014.

Crude oil and NGL productionin the OECD 30 coun-

tries totaled 22.6 mn bpd in April, up by 1.2 mn bpd or

5.8% from the previous year.

Production in the countries of the Com mon-

wealth of Independent States (CIS) for April 2015

was 13.8 mn bpd, down 0.1 mn bpd or 0.8% compared

with April 2014, and forthe rest of the world, production

was 15.7 mn bpd, 0.6 mn bpd, or 0.4 % lower than it was

in April 2014.

Total world production of crude oi l and NGL for April

2015 totaled 88.0 mn bpd, an increase of 1.8 mn bpd or

2.1% compared with the gure for April 2014.

Natural gas production

US production of natural gas for February 2015 was

56.6 bcm, up 3.1 b cm or 5.9% compared with Febru-

ary 2014. In Canada, production totaled 14.8 bcm, an

increase of 0.6 bcm or 4.1% from the previous year.

Natural gas production in the CIS countries was

72.9 bcm, down 3.5 bcm or 4.6% compared with

the gure for February 2014. Production for OECD

Europe-23 was down by 1.2 bcm or 5.2% at 21.3 bcm.

Over all, world total natural gas production in Febru-

ary 2015 was 289.8 bcm, an increase of 8.6 bcm or 3.1%

compared with the gure for February 2014.

Coal and lignite production

World total combined production of coal and lignite in

February 2015 was 625.7 mn mt, up 7.3 mn mt or 1.2%

from the previous year.

Production in the US in February was 64.3 mn mt, a

fall of 4.0 mnmt or 5.9% compared with the gure for

February 2014.

eCIScountriesproduced40.3mnmtofcoaland

lignite in February 2014, a fall of 1.6 mn mt or 3.8%

compared with February 2014.

Electricity production

Net total world production of electricity in February

2015 was 8.5% or 164 bn kWh less than in February 2014,

at 1,767.7 bn kWh.

In China, net electricity production increased by

17.1 bn kWh, or 4.7% on the gure for February 2014,

at 377.1 bn kWh. US production for February 2015

was just 0.4 bn kWh or 0.1% higher than the gure for

February 2014 at 324.1 bn kWh.

Net electricity production in OECD Europe-23 was

272.6 bn kWh, a fall of 1.5 bn kWh, or 0.6% compared

with the same month in 2014.

Products demand

Demand for oil products in the US for February 2015

was 19.2 mn bpd, an increase of 0.2mn bpd or 1.0%

compared to February 2014.

AcrosstheOECD30countries,productsdemandwas

43.7 mn bpd, the same as it was in February 2014.

Products demand in Japan for February 2015 was

4.9 mn bpd, a fall of 0.3 mn bpd or 5.3% compared with

the previous year.

Totalworld demand for petroleum products in Febru-

ary 2015 was 90.5 mn bpd, an increase of 0.6 mn bpd or

0.6% compared with the gure for February 2014.

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