文档介绍：60 Years
BP Statistical Review
of World Energy
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What’s inside
The BP Statistical Review of World Energy is now 60
1 Celebrating 60 years years old. It is the longest pilation of global
energy statistics available. Collected down the years, it
2 How it all began has e widely recognized as a key source of data
on energy markets, useful to business, policy, academia,
journalists and the public alike. It seems fair to say that it
4 The first map of a global trade has e a crucial resource, underpinning with facts
discussions about energy or the environment.
6 Branching out Over the past 60 years, the Review has expanded
from six typewritten pages plus one page for graphical
8 The impact of 1973 illustrations to an database that can be used for
very detailed analysis. Behind the published data are
9 A lesson in numbers about 300,000 single data entries – at the last count,
and growing every day, of course. Yet, in a world ever
more concerned with mercial value of data, it is
10 Fuel diversity freely available to all who wish to use it. Above all, there
is no wishful thinking, no politics and no spin. It is simply
11 The editor explains the numbers a portrait in numbers of global energy production,
consumption, trade, reserves and prices.
12 Sustaining objectivity These numbers contain the story of energy in
the last half of the 20th century and the beginning of
13 Pro bono Christof Rühl this one. They illustrate global transitions in the fuels
Group Chief Economist and Vice President we use and how we use them, and our upations
and concerns about this important element of the
14 Into the future global economy.
I believe it is therefore worth marking the
16 Then and now Review’s birthday, to tell the story of how it started
Celebrating and how it grew. I hope you enjoy the story.
60 years
World Crude oil production 1920-1951
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