Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 24

15-Jun-2009

REGIONAL/OPEC

Non-OECD Now Biggest Primary Energy Consumer, BP Estimates

The developing world led by China has overtaken the richer countries of the OECD in consumption of primary energy for the first time in history, according to BP executives presenting the 2009 edition of their annual Statistical Review of World Energy in London on 10 June. This represents a tectonic shift in world energy demand, according to BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward:...