Expert Group on Energy Statistics
Second Meeting, UNSD, New York, 2-5 November 2010
InterEnerStat
A Major Contribution
to Harmonised Definitions and to IRES
Jean-Yves Garnier
Head, Energy Statistics Division
International Energy Agency
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The starting point of the JODI initiative
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The IEA invited five regional and international
organisations dealing with oil statistics
UN
OPEC
EUROSTAT
. What is currently collected
. How it is collected
. Can organisations harmonise
their reporting
10th
Anniversary
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Decision was taken to adopt
a joint simple harmonised questionnaire
APERC/EUROSTAT/OECD-IEA/ OLADE/OPEC/UN
A Simple Format (42 data points)
Country:
Month:
Unit:
Petroleum Products
Crude Oil
LPG
Gasoline Kerosene
Gas/Diesel
Fuel Oil Total Oil
Oil
Month -1 and MonthRefinery
-2 Output
Production
Imports
Imports
Exports
Exports
Stocks
Closing
Change
Refinery Intake
Stocks
Choice of units left to organisations
Closing
Change
Demand
Simple Definitions
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Since then, the Initiative has never
stopped growing
Quito
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Rome
May 08
Riyadh
Nov 06
Doha
May 06
Riyadh
Nov 05
Bali
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Cairo
Oct 03
Amst.
May 04
Osaka
Sep 02
Mexico
May 02
Vienna
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Riyadh
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Madrid
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Riyadh
Nov 00
Bangkok
Apr 01
Luxem.
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Vienna
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Paris
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Vienna
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Paris
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Riyadh
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N York
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Luxem.
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Vienna
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Paris
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Paris
Nov 07
Paris
Jul 05
Paris
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Amst.
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International Energy
Forum Conferences
Mexico
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JODI Conferences
Paris
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Inter-Secretariat Working
Group Meetings
Vienna
Mar 09
InterEnerStat: A logical extension of JODI
Harmonisation:
A Play in 4 Acts…
2nd draft of the
InterEnerStat website
InterEnerStat 4
October 2009
OCG 4
InterEnerStat 3
October 2008
1st draft of the
InterEnerStat website
OCG 3
InterEnerStat 2
November 2007
OCG 2
Ad hoc Energy Group Meeting
UNSD, May 2005
OCG 1
JODI
InterEnerStat 1
November 2005
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The 1st InterEnerStat Workshop
22-23 November 2005, IEA, Paris
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To hear from each organisation what they do,
what are their problems and their expectation for
more co-operation
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Expectations from each organisation regarding
cooperation
From InterEnerStat 1 to InterEnerStat 2
UN
FAO
OAPEC
EUROSTAT
WORLD BANK
OPEC
The first step was to collect from each organisation its own set of definitions
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From InterEnerStat 1 to InterEnerStat 2
The second step was
to assemble definitions
of products and flows
from all organisations
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Act II - the 2nd InterEnerStat Workshop
19-20 November 2007, IEA, Paris
● Review of the website including
the pages on definitions
● Definition of a strategy towards
harmonisation
● Decision to hire an international
expert
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A view of the web site
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From InterEnerStat 2 to InterEnerStat 3
An expert has been contracted for:
 Looking at flows and products
 Highlighting similarities and differences
 Proposing a “compromise” definition for each
flow/product
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Act III - the 3rd InterEnerStat Workshop
28-30 October 2008, IEA, Paris
● Three intense days of discussion
● A series of decisions adopted
● Additional work passed to the
consultant
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From InterEnerStat 3 to InterEnerStat 4
The revised ‘compromise’ definitions have been
sent to all organisations for comments
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From InterEnerStat 3 to InterEnerStat 4
Comments have been sent by several organisations and
assembled into two documents on flows and products
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Act IV - the 4th InterEnerStat Workshop
October 2009, IEA, Paris
● Three intense days of discussion
● More than 95% of definitions
agreed by participants
● Additional work passed to
consultant and organisations
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Already a wide impact of InterEnerStat
The harmonised definitions
constitute the basis of the
definitions proposed in Chapter 3
and Chapter 5 of the IRES Manual
The IEA has already made some
small changes in its terminology
(energy sector becomes energy
industry own use, etc.)
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APEC has harmonised its questionnaire
with Eurostat, IEA, UNECE
One questionnaire to all, dream or reality ?
UN
FAO
EUROSTAT
AFREC
OAPEC
OPEC
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And now…
Still some work to do for finalising the harmonisation of
all the definitions.
A need to re-circulate the revised defintions to all the
participating organisations
Harmonisation of all the questionnaires, common
training material, common training sessions are some
examples of what could be next in terms of cooperation
Enormous challenge. Active participation and great
commitment from 20+ organisations. Experience and
hard work from the consultant. Cooperation and
willingness were and are keys for InterEnerStat and for
strengthening international energy statistics.
Thank you
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Additional slides
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Lack of harmonisation can lead to
large discrepancies
Secretaria de Energía
Mexico
UN
Crude Oil Production for Mexico (in kbd)
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APEC 2653
IEA
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OLADE 2722
OPEC 2618
UN
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1996
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2977
1997
3087
3062
3022
3022
3166
1998
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Act I - the 2nd InterEnerStat Workshop
22-23 November 2005, IEA, Paris
● Setting the scene
● The actors
● The role of each actor
● The script for co-operation and
harmonisation
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A glance at the reports
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A self explanatory report
The definition
proposed at
InterEnerStat 3
Decisions taken
at InterEnerStat 3
Revised definition
Comments
received from
organisations
Second revision
based on comments
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