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Australian fuel imports from Asia are going sky high while non-compliance with IEA stock requirements continues (part 1)
Posted on February 21, 2018 | No CommentsFrom time to time the media takes some interest: Low emergency oil reserves ‘now pose a danger to security’ 16/2/2018 Australia’s failure to meet emergency oil reserves now posed a […] -
Former Prime Minister Howard assumes US shale oil will provide for China’s oil demand growth
Posted on November 4, 2017 | No CommentsAt this event at the Australian Institute for Asian Affairs 31/10/2017 Australia in Today’s World – some observations from former PM John Howard https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/news-item/australia-todays-world/ John Howard was happy to report […] -
Almost half of Australia’s petrol, diesel and jet fuel imports come from South Korea and Japan
Posted on August 12, 2017 | No CommentsAs the world wonders what comes next in the North Korean missile crisis we need to have a look what a military confrontation would mean for Australia. This article from […] -
Asia Pacific oil supply gap widening as China production drops
Posted on June 19, 2017 | No CommentsThe annual BP Statistical Review with data up to and including 2016 was published last week. In this post we have a look at oil statistics for Asia – Pacific. […] -
South Korea’s oil trade under threat
Posted on April 29, 2017 | No CommentsIn 2010 the China Sign Post blog published an article entitled “Playing with fire. Potential impact of a North Korean threat to South Korean oil refineries”, showing following map: Fig […] -
Australia more vulnerable than ever to fuel import disruptions
Posted on April 14, 2017 | No CommentsThis is because after the closure of 3 oil refineries in Sydney and Brisbane fuel imports have skyrocketed and these additional imports come from and pass through an area where […] -
China’s oil peak 45 years after the US peak
Posted on September 5, 2016 | No CommentsFig 1: Oil crisis in China like in 2005? No. By order: Free roads for G20 in Hangzhou https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/31/china-hangzhou-propaganda-facelift-g20-summit Strategically published only days before the G20 summit the Wall Street […] -
Peak Oil in Asia and oil import trends (part 2)
Posted on June 25, 2016 | No CommentsWe pick up the question from part 1: Fig 11: Homework for governments Let’s have a look where all the net imports into Asia have come from in the past: […] -
Peak Oil in Asia (part 1)
Posted on June 20, 2016 | No CommentsAccording to data recently published in BP’s 2016 Statistical Review Asian oil production remained at around 8.3 mb/d for 4 years now. Fig 1: Asian oil production We see the […] -
Asia’s oil consumption at record high while production peaked in 2010
Posted on June 23, 2015 | No CommentsThe annual BP Statistical Review has come out, as usual in June. In this post we focus on the Asia Pacific region. This is important because the Australian government has […]