Here’s a couple articles on the demand for oil. The first is by JD at Peak Oil Debunked.
SUPPLY CRUNCH RECEDES
For the last few months the peak oilers have been terrorizing the newbies with the "looming supply crunch" due to lack of investment. Much of this was based on comments earlier this year by the IEA:"Currently the demand is very low due to the very bad economic situation," [Nobuo Tanaka, the IEA’s executive director] said. "But when the economy starts growing and recovery comes again in 2010 and onward, we may have another serious supply crunch if capital investment is not coming."
However, this one has now bitten the bag like so many other peak oil scares over the years:
IEA sees global oil supply crunch risk recede
Jun 29 2009The world may escape an oil supply crisis for the next five years because a slow recovery from the economic downturn would hold down growth of demand, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday.
Yet another case where the peak oilers relentlessly hype an anticipated threat, and provide no reporting at all when the threat evaporates.
And in related news, the IEA just cut 3 million barrels per day for demand for the next four years: So Much for Chinese Demand (hat tip to Eric J. Fox)
And next, here’s Eric’s article in full.
So Much For Chinese Demand
Courtesy of Eric J. Fox, Stock Market Prognosticator
"The International Energy Agency cut its oil demand estimates for every year through 2013 by about 3 million barrels a day, it said in its Medium- Term Oil Market Report today. Consumption will average 86.76 million barrels a day in 2012, the first year it will rise above 2008’s level of 85.76 million barrels a day, according to the Paris-based agency."
Well so much for demand for Energy from China. This demand growth has always been hyped by Energy bulls, but as I and many others have stated previously, what really matters is demand growth from the the U.S. and other industrialized nations.
Here is how the math works:
Oil demand in 2009 for the OECD countries is 45.2 million barrels per day, down 2.3 million barrels per day from 2008.
China oil demand is 7.9 million barrels per day. Let’s assume that it grows at 5% a year, or about 400,000 barrels per day.
As you can see, the fall in demand from the OECD easily wipes out demand growth from China by a factor of at least five.
Photo taken by Peter Facey, license agreement here.
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