OIL DEMAND PROSPECTS

(The following is the text of a presentation on 11 April 1986 by Pierre Desprairies, Chairman of the Board of Administration of the Institut Francais du Petrole, at the international conference on "Energy Demand: Prospects and Trends", organized at the University of Surrey in Guildford, Great Britain, by the Surrey Energy Economics Centre).

The proper thing for a speaker to do is to begin by saying that the subject proposed to him is of exceptional interest....