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• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/oet.12403
• Date: 01 April 2017
• Published date: 01 April 2017

Oil and Energy

Trends

A Monthly Publication

of International Energy

Statistics and Analysis

Volume 42, Issue 4 APRIL 2017

CONTENTS

Focus: North Sea output grows in 2016; but will it carry on

growing?............................................. 4

TheMonthinBrief ...................................7

GasandPower .......................................8

StatisticalHighlights ................................10

Editorial: OilPriceReview............................12

LookingAhead ......................................16

NotestoTables ......................................18

Tables ..............................................20

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TABLES

Exploration and Production

3EstimatedNumberofRigsActiveWorld-Wide.............20

Crude Oil Production

4.1 WorldOilProduction:Overview........................21

4.2 OPECCrudeOilProduction........................... 21

4.3 CrudeOilProduction:WorldSummary.................22

4.4 CrudeOilProduction:byCountry......................23

Natural Gas Production

5.1 NaturalGasProduction:WorldSummary ...............26

5.2 NaturalGasProduction:byCountry.................... 26

Coal and Lignite Production

6.1 CoalandLigniteProduction:WorldSummary...........29

6.2 CoalandLigniteProduction:byCountry................29

Electricity Production

7NetElectricityProduction ...............................31

Oil Refining

8ProductionfromRefineries.............................. 33

9RefineryRuns.......................................... 34

Oil Demand and Stocks

10.1 OilDemand:WorldSummary.........................35

10.2 OilDemand:byCountry..............................36

11 Oil Demand by Product: Selected Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

12.1 Crude Oil and Product Stocks in the OECD Area . . . . . . . . 43

12.2 RefinedProductStocksintheOECDArea..............43

Prices

14.1 SpotCrudeOilPrices.................................44

14.2 OPECCrudeOilPrices...............................45

14.3 Non-OPECCrudeOilSalesPrices.....................46

International Trade

16 OilandtheBalanceofTrade ..........................47

17 NetImportsofCrudeandProducts....................48

18 Gross Imports of Crude Oil by Country of Origin . . . . . . . .49

19.1 PrincipalImportersofNaturalGas.....................50

19.2 PrincipalExporterstoOECDCountries................ 51

Tanker Chartering and Freight Rates

20 Spot(Dirty)TankerFixturesandFreightRates............52

21 TankerTimeCharters..................................52

22 SpotFreightRatesbyTankerSize........................53

23 Spot(Dirty)FreightRatesbyHauls......................53

Companies

24 Oil Company Earnings and Share Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Economic Indicators

25 CurrencyExchangeRates...............................56

26 Industrial Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

27 Car Registration in Selected OECD Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

28 CrudeSteelProduction—SelectedCountries............. 58

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