VOL. XXXI

NO. 5

9-NOVEMBER-1987

GENERAL

New Study Sees Future Japanese Oil Demand Stagnant

Although demand for primary energy in Japan is likely to grow by 1.6%annually over the next twenty years, oil consumption is expected to remainstagnant, with the result that oil's share of the energy market will fall from56.8% in 1986 to 42% in 2005, according to a new long-range study by the Supplyand Demand Committee of the Overall Energy Council (OEC), an advisory body tothe Ministry of International...