[Aussie-Geoff]

Hi,

I am interested in any statistics on what the oil the world consumes each day is used for. Some kind of table with information such as X% is used for personal transport, X% for aircraft, X% for Power, X% for heating etc...

I sense that this will be very interesting to understand and get a feel of "what will give first" if oil production drops (say) 3% a year. After 10 years that's 30% - so it will be interesting to understand how much of the usage is "discretionary" and likely to be price sensitive. Of course, the less discretionary - the higher the price will need to go and the great the likelihood of rationing / pnic etc...

Geoff

[turmoil]

this might help...



Source

[patmaster75]

44 gal = 1 barrel, right? Why do you get more than 44gal - what is the processing gain?

[turmoil]

1 barrel = 42 gallons according to most i've read

[Sparaxis]

A standard barrel is 42 gallons. A relic of the 19th century days when oil from Titusville went east in 50 gallon whiskey barrels (also a notable product of western Pennsylvania) but part evaporated en route.

Anyway, refinery gain is only an issue because we measure oil in volume terms instead of mass (tonnes). Because of the law of the conservation of matter, a tonne of crude oil going into a refinery will produce a tonne of products (including processing losses along the way). But a barrel of crude oil going into a refinery might produce 1.1 barrels coming out. This is because lighter products (gasoline, kerosene, diesel, naphtha) are less dense than the crude they are made from and thus take up more volume for the same amount of weight. For example, there's typically 7.3 barrels of a medium crude to a tonne, but 7.8 barrels of diesel to a tonne, 8.5 of gasoline, and 11.65 barrels of LPG in a tonne.

As for end-use of oil, those data are the most difficult to compile. The graphic above is just the general yield of a barrel of oil and what it is generally used for, not the actual proportion in end-use. The IEA compiles these end-use statistics at the level of transport, agriculture, industry, feedstock use, etc. (i.e. sectoral end-use), as do national governments. A big difficulty in compiling world wide figures is that some countries (notably China) do not collect end-use data on the same basis as other countries. For example, China allocates gasoline end-use to the sector of the economy that consumes it, so that you end up with data such as "industrial use of gasoline", which is in effect, the use of gasoline for transport by entities that are considered industrial. In the US, all such use is just defined as "transportation", no matter whether it is an individual, corporation, government office, etc.

IEA's data and those compiled by the UN Statistics Bureau are for-fee publications, though someone with access could extract the relevant numbers for us here.

[Aussie-Geoff]

Thanks,

Are there any end user stats for (say) just the USA and Europe. I guess even those would be interesting since it will give a sense of where the big consumers use their oil. For example I saw on one of the Peak Oil web sites the claim that the USA used 75% of its oil on transportation... If that was true ti gives a fair indication of where most of the crunch will lie!

Geoff

[aahala]

You MIGHT be able to get the breakdown you want from the
www.bp.com website(upper right click "Reports).

I say MIGHT because many of them I have never been able to
look at. There are many!, some of the reports would take forever for
me to download on dialup and some have a format my computer
won't open.

[Sparaxis]

Aussie,

You can see the US end-use breakdown by sector for all oil and the transportation share (now 63%) at EIA.

Details of consumption by each oil product by sector in the US is contained in the Annual Energy Outlook (here). Look under Yearly Tables. Unfortunately it's all converted to Quads.

[Aussie-Geoff]

Hi,

Thanks. Both sites are interesting. The EIA site had the info I was after (and Transport is a big consumer, after which is industry.

The BP site was also interesting... The graphing tool is well worth playing with...

Geoff