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Country Consumption (MBD)
1. U.S.A- 19,419,000
2. China- 7,999,000
3. Japan- 4,845,000
4. India- 2,882,000
5. Russia- 2,797,000
6. Germany- 2,505,000
7.Brazil- 2,397,000
8. Canada- 2,295,000
9.South Korea- 2,291,000
10. Saudi Arabia-2,224,000
11. Mexico- 2,039,000
12. France- 1,930,000
13. Iran- 1,730,000
14. United Kingdom- 1,704,000
15. Italy- 1,691,000
16 Spain- 1,574,000
17. Indonesia- 1,217,000
18. Taiwan- 1,074,000
19. Netherlands- 982,000
20. Singapore- 958,000
Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2008

Last years figures.

Country Consumption (MBD)

1. USA- 20,698,000

2. China- 7,855,000

3. Japan- 5,041,000

4. India- 2,748,000

5. Russia- 2,699,000

6. Germany- 2,393,000

7. South Korea- 2,371,000

8. Canada- 2,303,000

9. Brazil- 2,192,000

10. Saudi Arabia- 2,154,000

11. Mexico- 2,024,000

12. France- 1,919,000

13. Italy- 1,745,000

14. UK- 1,696,000

15. Iran- 1,621,000

16. Spain- 1,615,000

17. Indonesia- 1,157,000

18. Taiwan- 1,123,000

19. Netherlands- 1,044,000

20. Australia- 935,000

USA is a behemont. interesting to see Italy up to 13th.

There seems to be a little confusion on these numbers because they are " natural gas" not " unconventional gas" That number from the people at Colorado School of Mines Potential Gas Committee is a combination of both types of gas. That is 1836 tcf of Unconventional Gas and 238 Tcf of natural gas. The NPC has a sponsored paper involving a couple of dozen top people in unconventional gas wherein world UG is 32,000 tcf and North America is 8300 TCF. Of course, these reserves will very much have Sweet Spots cherry picked for decades to come. The total recoverable gas in the NPC paper is detailed by areas of concentration and continents. Certainly 20-30% of the UG can be recovered over time. Most was always considered stranded until the advent of the LNG train. Recently, radical new understandings allow tight sands and shale gas to be quite recoverable at around $6mcf.

I can link the NPC report if desired but thought that the geology.com site allows a look at how these UG gas reserves have so radically grown

http://geology.com/articles/marcellus-shale.shtml

This website connects to the other big UG fields like Haynesville, Barnett and such.


http://www.mines.edu/Potential-Gas-Comm ... -resources.

The terminology in the industry is madeningly loose. Both are natural gas in some dicussions. Natural gas is loosely the same as associated gas. UG is gas non associated with an oil pool. And they lump both together in common discourse as just gas.

OOps, I thought I was posting to the gas thread just below the oil thread. What do I do now?

I have rearranged the top 20 consumers for your interest;

1. Singapore
2. Saudi Arabia
3. Canada
4. USA
5. Netherlands
6. South Korea
7. Taiwan
8. Japan
9. Spain
10. France
11. Germany
12. Italy
13. United Kingdom
14. Iran
15 Russia
16. Mexico
17. Brazil
18. China
19. Indonesia
20. India

This list is the top 20 consumers sorted by population i.e. mbpd / population. Consumption figures from op. Population from UN 2008.

Very interesting. I can see that we are not even in the top three in consumption per capita. Canada and Saudi Arabia are entitled to use their own oil, since they produce more than they consume.

Singapore is basically just a city, so it doesn't surprise me that the inhabitants of a modern city use a lot of oil.

Revi wrote:Singapore is basically just a city

Which should make Singapore more efficient, shouldn't it?

That is, after all, the reason given that Europeans consume less per capita than their North American cousins for a similarly comfortable lifestyle i.e. denser population centres. If you've been to Singapore you'll know there's virtually no traffic on the roads. Mostly taxis only. Their underground trains are incredible. And, importantly, there's no heavy industry. In fact there's probably next to no industry at all.

So how do they manage to consume so much?

It seems Canada's high per capita ranking would be largely due to the fuel burned in the Alberta tar sands project.

domallele wrote:

Revi wrote:Singapore is basically just a city

Which should make Singapore more efficient, shouldn't it?

That is, after all, the reason given that Europeans consume less per capita than their North American cousins for a similarly comfortable lifestyle i.e. denser population centres. If you've been to Singapore you'll know there's virtually no traffic on the roads. Mostly taxis only. Their underground trains are incredible. And, importantly, there's no heavy industry. In fact there's probably next to no industry at all.

So how do they manage to consume so much?

Virtually no traffic? Even at 3am the roads are busy with traffic.

Yes, the MRT is nice and safe, and taxi's are easy to find, but vehicle traffic is quite thick and getting thicker too as COE's are liberally handed out.

The nation I was really surprised by was the Netherlands. A small nation who enjoy good public transport and use bicycles considerably more than most European countries. I guess they haven't exported their industry to the same extent as other Western nations.

Virtually no traffic? Even at 3am the roads are busy with traffic.

Really? I haven't been for about 10 years but can vividly remember standing on a bridge over a major road (4 lanes each way) close to central district, in broad daylight, and seeing no more than 3 or 4 cars at any one time. I remember it because it felt so odd - major road with essentially no traffic. It's been a long time but that would be a significant change!

hillsidedigger wrote:It seems Canada's high per capita ranking would be largely due to the fuel burned in the Alberta tar sands project.

The vast majority of energy used to heat the bitumen is derived from natural gas-which isn't included in the consumption rankings above.

In 2007, use for syncrude production was about 1B cubic feet/day.

domallele wrote:The nation I was really surprised by was the Netherlands. A small nation who enjoy good public transport and use bicycles considerably more than most European countries. I guess they haven't exported their industry to the same extent as other Western nations.

Singapore, Rotterdam and Shanghai are the three biggest ports in the world, my guess is that a lot of oil goes to shipping. Also in the case of the Netherlands and Singapore, some of their "consumption" might not really be consumption but might be re-exported.

(I was also surprised by the high number for Holland, especially as I just read that it has the busiest railnetwork in the world when measured by km of rail and per capita use.)

I notice US, Japan are down and Germany, China, India, Iran and Saudi Arabia are up.

I wonder how much more US demand can contract, in comparison to how much more India & China will increase.

I also wonder about land export model and Iran & Saudi's increased consumption.

A lot of questions will be answered if/when US & Japan's oil demand goes up again.

Please see attached file.

Some more analysis. You will note that efficiency (% consumption change in relation to GDP +/-) differences are striking. USA, China, Brazil, Taiwan and Netherlands making significant efficiency improvements.

Also, check out the per head consumption for Singapore in comparison to all other nations! I'm wondering how reliable these figures are, as that just cannot be right.

* Singapore replaced Australia at number 20. It's change is therefore a minimum as it must have been the Australian figure in 2007.

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may i know what is the place of Philippines and Malaysia when it comes to Oil Consumption?

though US tops the chart when compared with gdp they are not spending much on oil, when compared vs developing countries. but as they are driving big vehicles with high fuel consumption they should buy carbon credits like planting trees

Singapore sold 34.9 million metric tonnes of shipping oil in 08, up 4.4 mmt from 07. Otherwise it would be nowhere near this list in per capita or overall.