| giasen |
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| 02/23/07 10:07 AM |
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World Oil Consumption
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World Oil Consumption per Capita World Oil Production World Oil Reserves
World Oil Consumption by Country represented as foot height per barrel per day (divided by 10 to keep it from shooting off the screen) according to CIA Factbook.
So, for example, the 20,000,000 or so barrels per day consumed by the USA according to the CIA Factbook are represented as a 2,000,000 foot high red prism.
This file was last updated on 8 February, 2007
I find World Oil Consumption per Capita a better exhibit, however.
could use a little organizing... this was a quick & dirty output
| heamit |
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| 02/23/07 07:20 PM |
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This is brilliant, giasen! An excellent use of the technology and 5 stars from me for sure. Thank you for making this
I don't know how much trouble this would be, but you know what I would find really interesting? Oil consumption per capita. In fact at first that's what I thought this was but then I noticed anomalies such as Switzerland using practically none compared to its neighbors etc and, of course, if the graphs show total consumption then that explains it.
Is it possible to do per capita?
Still, a great and very interesting file.
| InternetPerson5 |
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| 02/24/07 11:07 AM |
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Excellent!
Whoa look at America
No surprise I guess...
| giasen |
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| 02/24/07 01:35 PM |
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This is brilliant, giasen! An excellent use of the technology and 5 stars from me for sure. Thank you for making this
I don't know how much trouble this would be, but you know what I would find really interesting? Oil consumption per capita. In fact at first that's what I thought this was but then I noticed anomalies such as Switzerland using practically none compared to its neighbors etc and, of course, if the graphs show total consumption then that explains it.
Is it possible to do per capita?
Still, a great and very interesting file.
you took the words right out of my mouth. per capita would be even better and i know how to do it. i'll try to get it out on monday when i get back in the office.
seer
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| 02/27/07 10:56 AM |
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Nice visualization.
From an economic point of view, you'll generally find educational value in looking at consumption vs. production.
In this case, countries use oil largely for energy and nationally, energy serves both lifestyle and commerce. On the lifestyle front, you'd expect to see that (a) more people leads to more energy use, and (b) that more developed countries use more oil per person (heating, cooling, lighting, etc.) Further, businesses use energy as an input in commercial activities. From this we'd expect to see that the more manufacturing, construction, shipping, etc., done in a country the more energy it will require.
One way to approach this with summary statistics is to compare energy use to gross domestic product or if available, gross measures of industry excluding "office-work" businesses. This comparison would implicitly include population as well, though disproportionately since highly developed countries have a greater number of persons active in commerce while less-developed countries have a greater number in agriculture.
In any case, it would be nice to see oil vs. GDP so that we can see what countries are efficient economic engines and which are not.
| giasen |
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| 02/27/07 03:20 PM |
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Nice visualization.
From an economic point of view, you'll generally find educational value in looking at consumption vs. production.
In this case, countries use oil largely for energy and nationally, energy serves both lifestyle and commerce. On the lifestyle front, you'd expect to see that (a) more people leads to more energy use, and (b) that more developed countries use more oil per person (heating, cooling, lighting, etc.) Further, businesses use energy as an input in commercial activities. From this we'd expect to see that the more manufacturing, construction, shipping, etc., done in a country the more energy it will require.
One way to approach this with summary statistics is to compare energy use to gross domestic product or if available, gross measures of industry excluding "office-work" businesses. This comparison would implicitly include population as well, though disproportionately since highly developed countries have a greater number of persons active in commerce while less-developed countries have a greater number in agriculture.
In any case, it would be nice to see oil vs. GDP so that we can see what countries are efficient economic engines and which are not.
That is a good idea. I'll do the GDP next. I was trying to think of a good way to combine them but at the moment I can only think of showing them side by side. Maybe I'll do population too.
| Luigi_GEarth |
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| 08/01/07 02:50 PM |
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Great!
Nice work! It's very useful
Per Capita in fact should make more sense but it is still of great value!
By the way do you intend to do some other extension of this work? Natural gas? Proved Reserves?
Thanks!
| Gerardo64 |
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| 08/01/07 03:40 PM |
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Hi Luigi
Here you have some more information about you are looking for.
| giasen |
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| 08/09/07 11:35 AM |
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Great!
Nice work! It's very useful
Per Capita in fact should make more sense but it is still of great value!
By the way do you intend to do some other extension of this work? Natural gas? Proved Reserves?
Thanks!
Hello Luigi,
I actually did also do per capita and it is located here:
world oil consumption per capita
I'm still working on making that tutorial...
And I would like to do extensions of this work. All I need is good data.
| Mattelfesso |
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| 06/20/08 12:59 PM |
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This is a cool concept.
I think it might be visually misleading, however. Did you divide the national oil consuption by the geographical area of the country when calcuating the height? From a visual perspective the 'volume' of the elevations imply the volume of oil consumption (not the height). If not adjusted by area then smaller countries would be much shorter than they ought to be. For example if the U.S. were divided into 50 countries instead of 50 states (similar to Europe) the height would be 50 time smaller on average.
| giasen |
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| 07/02/08 01:13 PM |
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Hello,
You are right. I forgot to mention in the first post that it is number of barrels per day per country divided by 10 to keep it in a better scale. I have updated the post. If I didn't divide the amount per each country by 10 it WOULD be more accurate but the earth in this exhibit would be closer to a tiny dot. If you want I could revert to something technically visually accurate in a future post. Thanks for reminding me to clarify that.
| Mattelfesso |
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| 07/02/08 09:38 PM |
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The fact that the figures were divided by 10 is not relevant. This is just an arbitrary scale adjustment.
I also disagree with the idea of a per capita adjustment. Consider a large country with a high per capita usage but a tiny population. That type of plot would give the mistaken impression that they are massive consumers.
I still feel that the annual production should be represented as a volume not as a height. In other words divide the annual consumption by the land surface area. Visually this would be more accurate. You could even imagine barrels of oil being poured in to fill up the space. If you insist on plotting a consumption as the height then a single width bar (or perhaps stacked oil barrels) should be placed over each country.
For large countries like the U.S. that have both sparse and densely populated areas it would be best to further break it down by state (i.e. plot the height = oil consumption by the state divided by the surface area of the state).
| giasen |
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| 07/03/08 10:01 AM |
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So it would be something like the annual consumption of the USA (roughly 7,300,000,000 barrels) divided by the number of square miles contained within the USA (3,537,438.44 square miles)? I guess that would be consumption per square mile instead of per capita. Seems like that would also be skewed in a certain sense but I'll give it a shot.
Here is US Oil Consumption per Caipta by State while I work on it.
| tnxengine |
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| 07/08/08 04:33 PM |
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Hi,
Here's an example of what's currently incorrect, and how to fix it:
Barrels/Day Land Area (SqKm) "Height" (km) *flawed* prism volume
Germany 2393000(bbl) 357,021(km^2) 72(km) 26,040,626(km^3)
France 1919000(bbl) 643,427(km^2) 58(km) 37,634,766(km^3)
Do you see how France *actually* uses only about 4 barrels to every 5 used by Germany? And despite this, if Germany is shown with 5 units of *volume*, France shows up as having 7 units of volume?
This effectively *doubles* the amount of apparent French oil consumption; it's really, really really inaccurate.
The distortion on other nations is much more extreme. European populations have risen to *much* higher densities than that of the USA, which has conserved a great deal of pristine open space (France packs people in at approximately 7.5 times the density). So this causes your chart to show American oil consumption as being many many *TIMES* higher than it actually is.
Perhaps you might consider working out your equations such that a given amount of prism-volume consistently relates to a given amount of whatever-you're-trying-to-measure (whether that's barrels/day, or barrels per person per day, or 1/10th of a barrel per person per day, or whatever you want). That would make your chart *less* skewed and more accurate.
The key is not to let the surface area of the country play into the equation (because otherwise you'll be confusing geographic area with oil consumption).
So, if you were to do per-capita, I'd obtain the per capita oil consumption and then divide by the surface area of the country. That will give you an overall volume that shows the "size" of each *citizen's* oil consumption.
This may be disappointing because it probably won't match up with a lot of the propaganda that's floating around (that Americans consume almost infinite amounts of oil while Europeans consume nearly none). But that's the nature of fact: it doesn't always agree with what you're *told* to believe.
You also ought to account for oil production. I say this because a great deal of the controversy surrounding oil has to do with *importing* oil (typically people talk about the Middle East).
For example: EU and the USA.
The EU draws a great deal of it's oil from the Middle East. The USA produces some of it's own oil (about 8% of the world oil supply in 2007) and tends to diversify it's oil purchases across more of the world.
This leads to the fact that:
Group Annual Imports of Middle East Oil (barrels/year)
European Union 1,080,013,209
United States 810,237,571
The Europeans generally don't like to draw attention to this fact, but in reality Europe imports a significantly larger amount of oil from the Middle East than does the United States. Also, that oil accounts for a larger % of their total consumption.
So when people talk about "oil wars" in the Middle East, realize this: Europeans will *in actual fact* take and use more of that oil than will the Americans.