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62 Third IMO GHG Study 2014<br />

1.4.2 Top-down QA/QC efforts specific to this study<br />

This study independently confirmed the statistical balances of IEA energy statistics on both global and large<br />

regional scales. Specifically, the calculation of statistical difference at the national and regional levels was<br />

verified and discrepancy between imports and exports reported by IEA was confirmed.<br />

Second, as in the Second IMO GHG Study 2009, the consortium researched other international energy data<br />

providers to understand whether international marine bunker records were considered to be similar to or<br />

different from IEA statistics. This included research into data quality studies for non-IEA energy statistics.<br />

Comparisons with EIA top-down statistics and other resources<br />

The following resources were evaluated for a) their similarity to IEA statistics and b) complementary data<br />

quality investigations.<br />

The consortium evaluated EIA international marine bunker fuel oil data for 2007–2010 (IEA did not provide<br />

more recent data than 2010 during the period in which this study was conducted). Moreover, the EIA statistics<br />

available on the United States Department of Energy website did not provide data for gas diesel international<br />

marine bunkers, nor break down domestic marine fuel consumption, nor identify fishing vessel consumption.<br />

These data may be available from the EIA; however, given that additional EIA data provide limited opportunities<br />

to improve QA/QC in top-down estimates, these data were not pursued.<br />

Table 24 and Figure 44 illustrate continued discrepancies in statistical reporting between IEA and EIA, similar<br />

to those documented in the Second IMO GHG Study 2009. Namely, the IEA data report consistently greater<br />

fuel oil consumption than the EIA data for international marine bunkers. This is indicated in Figure 45 by the<br />

scatter plot for the period 2000–2010, the regression line and the confidence interval of the best-fit line.<br />

Table 24 – Comparison of fuel sales data between IEA and EIA in international shipping (million tonnes)<br />

Fuel oil statistics Source 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011<br />

International marine bunkers IEA 174.1 177.0 165.9 178.9 177.9<br />

EIA 155.3 158.8 160.9 171.2<br />

Percentage difference 11% 10% 3% 4%<br />

Figure 44: Comparison of IEA and EIA international marine bunker fuel oil statistics

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