The Annual Oil Market Forecast and Review 2012 will provide you with a definitive source for the Centre’s views on the events in the global oil industry over the past year and its expert forecasts for 2012. This valuable reference tool offers comprehensive, un-biased analysis.

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The Review

Drawing on the Centre’s extensive data resources and analytical skills, the Review section assesses all the factors that led to high oil prices in 2011.

This includes detailed analysis of the following:

•    Oil prices
•    Oil demand
•    Non-OPEC supply
•    OPEC production
•    Oil inventories
•    Oil trade
•    Refining
•    Retail prices and taxes

The Forecasts

The Forecast section pulls together the unrivalled expertise of the Centre’s analysts, to provide a thorough examination of the main factors that will affect the oil market in 2012.

The Scenarios

The outlook for 2012 is explored further through three scenarios that link oil supply, demand and stock changes to movements in oil prices.

The reference case scenario incorporates the CGES’ view of likely developments in 2012, while the ‘high price’ and ‘low price’ scenarios examine the impact of variations from these baseline assumptions.

Who will benefit from this study?

•    Oil traders and brokers
•    Commercial banks and investors
•    Oil market analysts
•    Economic research analysts
•    Upstream and downstream oil companies
•    Shippers, Airlines and other consumers
•    Libraries
•    International institutions

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