Energy Super Power Australia is forced to beg neighbours for oil and fuels as a result of 2 decades of failed energy policy since the conventional crude oil peak in 2005, ignored…
Category: Australia
Tankers arriving and departing in Sydney
Updated 14/11/26 This is a dynamic post. It will be updated as the situation in Hormuz and Bab el Mandeb changes and tankers are arriving and departing Jump straight to today’s critical…
Australian Diesel stock held in March 2026 declined by 10% in 4 weeks
The Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen released the fuel stock data for the reporting date of 31/3/2026. Press conference, Fairfield West 4 April 2026 MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY CHRIS BOWEN:…
Australia Diesel Update January 2026 (part 2): MSO vs APS reporting
This is part 2 of the post from 19 March https://crudeoilpeak.info/where-does-australia-get-its-diesel-from-update-january-2026 In many previous posts on Australia’s oil import vulnerability this website has used monthly data from The Australian Petroleum Statistics (APS)…
Yes Minister, Chinese tankers still arrive in Sydney – just in time
In a lucky-down-under episode of the BBC series “Yes, Minister” https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006xtc3 we try to verify the Energy Minister’s repeated statements like this one: Press conference, Brisbane, QLD 20 March 2026 CHRIS BOWEN,…
Where does Australia get its diesel from? Update January 2026
Fig 1: Australian diesel imports by country. Stacked The scale in the following graphs is the same, so that a comparison is easy. Fig 2: Australian diesel imports from South Korea Fig…
China fuel exports suspension: Australia will have to replace 28% of its jet fuel imports from other countries
Australia’s jet fuel imports: Fig 1: Australian jet fuel imports While the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked: China urges refiners to suspend fuel exports amid Mideast war, sources say SINGAPORE, March 5…
Australia’s diesel import dependency on Strait of Hormuz is around 50 %
As the war in the Middle East has started, it’s time to update earlier posts on Australian fuel imports which indirectly depend on the Middle East. As of writing this post, Marine…
Hot day in Sydney, hot electricity prices
5 February 2026 Just as during question time in the comfortably airconditioned Parliament the price of electricity was discussed in its umptieth iteration …………… Mr CHESTER (Gippsland) (14:42): My question is to…
Sydney temperatures of 43 degrees push demand to 13,000 MW costing $12,000 per MWh
Fig 1: Temperatures in Sydney on 10 Jan 2026 Fig 2: Temperatures in Sydney on 1 – 10 Jan 2026 Observatory Hill is in the city near the Harbour and therefore cooler….