This article is an update to a previous post: 8/11/2022 Only 3-4 years to replace/save 45% of Australian diesel imports? https://crudeoilpeak.info/only-3-4-years-to-replace-save-45-of-australian-diesel-imports It incorporates the recently released Defence Strategic Review. Fig 1: Australian…
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Australian diesel imports from Taiwan May 2022
Australia imported 17% of its diesel from Taiwan in May 2022, while the 12 month moving average was 9% Fig 1: Australian diesel imports since Sep 2020 Australian fuel importers just replaced…
Australia’s diesel imports on record high Update June 2021
Australia’s monthly diesel imports reached a record of 2,360 ML (495 kb/d) in June 2021. While it is common for imports to vary from month to month there is a long term…
China – Australia passenger traffic has peaked 2018-19 before Covid
The number of arriving and departing passengers on direct flights from/to (mainland) Chinese airports has peaked in 2018 and 2019, BEFORE the corona virus hit in the 1st quarter of 2020. Arriving…
Brunei peak oil – golden opportunity for China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Fig 1: Gold plated dome of the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan Fig 2: Brunei crude & NGL production. The 2nd and last peak was in 2006 (Shell…
Peak oil in Africa (part 2): Export zero sum game
In this 2nd part we use data from the BP Statistical Review (June 2020). BP’s definition of oil is different from OPEC’s crude oil used in part 1. It includes also shale…
Exxon plans to produce gas close to China’s 9 dash line claim
This article is part 3 of a series on peak oil in the South China Sea. Bloomberg commented on 15/12/2016 that “Trump’s Top Diplomat Would Bring Complex History With China From Exxon…
Peak oil in the South China Sea (part 2)
China’s crude oil production has apparently peaked and is back to where it was at the beginning of 2010. Fig 1: China’s crude oil production http://www.jodidb.org/ Vietnam has become a net oil importer:…
Incremental crude production update August 2016
OPEC Fig 1: OPEC’s incremental crude oil production Incremental production for each country is the production above the minimum production for the period Jan 2000 – May 2016 (the latest data available…
Peak Oil in Asia and oil import trends (part 2)
We 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: Fig 12:…