Trade Movements of Petroleum

BP presents in their “Statistical Review of World Energy,” a summary of what they called inter-area movements of petroleum, which refers to the major imports and exports of oil between different countries or regions of the world. The trouble with BP’s over-complicated presentation was that one couldn’t readily visualize the relative petroleum flows from one region to the next, (i.e., the inter-regional flows). Additionally, even though they published these data every year, no effort was made to describe or depict to what extent these inter-regional flows have been changing over time.

I wanted to simplify the petroleum trade-movement data so that the yearly relative amounts of the major movements between smaller numbers of regions could be easily visualized and projected into the future.

To accomplish this, I animated my analysis of these inter-regional flows. The result is the following two video files.

Part 1 provides some introduction and guidance, and then shows the export and import trends for North America, South America and European region.

Part 2 starts back up showing the export and import trends for Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union countries, China, Japan, and the remaining Asia-Pacific countries, and ends by showing a combination of major inter-regional petroluem flows for multiple regions combined.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ygZCc3NjwM&feature=channel&list=UL

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