Data Sources
BP Statistical Review 2008
The BP Statistical Review is British Petroleum's best effort to review world energy trends. Produced once a year, the Excel workbook contains regional consumption and production data for Oil, Natural Gas, Coal, and Nuclear energy resources. Data from several worksheets in the Statistical Review are used as input to the databrowser. It is assumed that BP has made every effort to harmonize data from different sources and ensure that values within this workbook are consistent and comparable between nations.
Definitions:
- Coal Production
- Commercial solid fuels only, i.e. bituminous coal and anthracite (hard coal), and lignite and brown (sub-bituminous) coal.
- Coal Consumption
- Commercial solid fuels only, i.e. bituminous coal and anthracite (hard coal), and lignite and brown (sub-bituminous) coal.
- Natural Gas Production
- Excludes gas flared or recyled. As data are derived from tonnes oil equivalent using average conversion factors, they do not necessarily equate with gas volumes expressed in specific national terms.
- Natural Gas Consumption
- Differences between consumption figures and production statistics are due to variations in stocks at storage facilities and liquefaction plants, together with unavoidable disparities in the definition, measurement or conversion of gas supply and demand data. As data are derived from tonnes oil equivalent using average conversion factors, they do not necessarily equate with gas volumes expressed in specific national terms.
- Oil Production
- Includes crude oil, shale oil, oil sands and NGLs (the liquid content of natural gas where this is recovered separately).
- Oil Consumption
- Inland demand plus international aviation and marine bunkers and refinery fuel and loss. Consumption of fuel ethanol and biodiesel is also included.
Original Data
The original 2008 Statistical Review may be obtained from British Petroleum:
statistical_review_full_report_workbook_2008.xls
Copies of the current and older versions are archived on this site:
BP_2008.xls BP_2007.xls BP_2006.xls BP_2005.xls BP_2004.xls BP_2003.xls BP_2002.xls
ISO Standardized Data
For use in the Energy Export Databrowser, these data were converted from Excel spreadsheets with English language country names into ASCII CSV files with ISO 3166-1 two-digit country codes. These standardized data files are offered to the community in the interest of promoting internationalization and further investigation of the data.
Additional cleanup of the Excel worksheets included:
- conversion of numeric values stored as characters into floating point values
- conversion of '^' and '-' markers into floating point 0.0
- conversion of regions with no country equivalent into unique codes of the form: "BP_~~~" (e.g.Total North America = BP_TNA)
The ISO standardized filesfiles are: