In an effort to improve access to international energy data and trends in global energy markets, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Monday launched a redesigned version of its International Energy Portal.
The expanded portal provides increased access to data, including historical information on country-level energy use dating back, in many cases, more than 30 years, EIA said.
It also provides new user-driven customization, new data visualization features, improved access to international analysis, and enhanced data downloads. Users can retrieve international data as it is updated, or use EIA’s Excel Data Add-In tool to download data directly into spreadsheets, the agency said.
“With most of the future growth in energy consumption expected to occur outside of the United States and with increasingly interconnected world energy markets, a clear perspective on the international energy landscape is critically important, and EIA’s redesigned International Energy Portal makes it easier to gain insight into global energy developments,” said EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski.
A red banner at the top of the website Monday afternoon cautioned that “projects published on beta are not final and may contain programming errors. They are for public testing and comment only.”
BobInget on Tue, 19th May 2015 11:42 am
If you believe EIA is omitting vital data,
tell them.
Few, (maybe no other) oil import/export nation has such transparent information available free of charge.
GregT on Tue, 19th May 2015 12:22 pm
It is not so much that the EIA omits data, it is that they misrepresent it.
The US has the largest ‘Total Petroleum and Other Liquids Production’?
That may be true, but the US has a population 11 times the size of Saudi Arabia, twice the size of Russia, and 9 times the size of Canada. The US also consumes more energy on a per capita basis.
Davy on Tue, 19th May 2015 12:40 pm
The EIA presents data facts but it is either misrepresented as Greg mentions or goal seeking per the BAUtopian message of all is well. It takes people like those that are here on this board and others to digest the manipulated message in a realistic format. I no longer trust any mainstream media message unless it is digested from disinterested third parties.
JuanP on Tue, 19th May 2015 1:03 pm
The EIA should be renamed and called the EIOA or Energy Information Obfuscation Agency. I doubt this new website was created to make info more easily accessible. I suspect the goal may be quite the opposite! 😉