Section One
Section One
Section One
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contracted by 1.4 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2009. Moreover, the WOO 2009<br />
mboe/d<br />
foresaw recovery from the recession as being only gradual, and this affected medium-<br />
30<br />
term oil demand prospects, which reached just 90.2 mb/d OECD in 2015 compared to the<br />
96.1 mb/d expected in the WOO 2008.<br />
Developing countries<br />
25<br />
As discussed earlier in this Chapter, the recovery has in fact been swifter than expected.<br />
20 This had already been factored into the WOO 2010, with increased mediumterm<br />
demand expectations. This process of re-evaluation has continued (Figure 1.14),<br />
with global economic growth for 2010 at an average of 4.7%.<br />
15<br />
As a result, the medium-term outlook for oil demand reflects an upward revision<br />
from 10 last year’s assessment. Table 1.6 highlights that the Reference Case now foresees<br />
demand reaching 88.2 mb/d in 2011, an increase of 1.6 mb/d compared to the WOO<br />
2010 figure. By 2015, demand reaches 92.9 mb/d, an upward revision of 1.9 mb/d<br />
5<br />
compared to last year’s publication. However, it is worth stressing that risks appear<br />
skewed towards the downside, especially since the sovereign debt crisis in some EU<br />
countries 0 seems to be spreading and the world economy slowing down further, with<br />
1971 1990 2010 2035<br />
potential consequences for the global financial system.<br />
Figure 1.14<br />
WOO projections for 2015<br />
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96<br />
95<br />
94<br />
93<br />
92<br />
91<br />
90<br />
89<br />
88<br />
87<br />
mb/d<br />
Figure 1.13<br />
Figure 1.14<br />
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011<br />
Year of WOO