ABREVIATIONS
Symbols:
na Not available.
- Nil or negligible.
* Provisional or estimated figures, as of June 12, 2008
Currencies:
$ US dollar KD Kuwaiti dinar
Euro LD Libyan dinar
AD Algerian dinar N Nigerian naira
AON Angolan New Kwanza QRL Qatari riyal
US$ Ecuador SRL Saudi Arabian riyal
RP Indonesian rupiah AED UAE dirham
IR Iranian rial B Venezuelan bolivar
ID Iraqi dinar
Miscellaneous:
b barrel(s) ft feet
b/d barrels per day GDP gross domestic product
b/cd barrels per calendar day LNG liquefied natural gas
b/sd barrels per stream day LPG liquefied petroleum gas
bn b billion barrels m b million barrels
cif cost, insurance and freight NGLs natural gas liquids
cu m cubic metres NOC national oil company
dwt deadweight tonnage t tonne
fob free on board    
Companies:
ADCO Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations
ADMA Abu Dhabi Marine Areas
ADMA-OPCO Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company
ADNOC Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
ADOC Abu Dhabi Oil Company
Agip Agip SpA
Agoco Arabian Gulf Oil Company (SP Libyan AJ)
Amerada Hess Amerada Hess Corporation
AOC Arabian Oil Company
Aquitaine Societe Nationale des Petroles d'Aquitaine
Aramco Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco)
Arco Atlantic Richfield Company
Asamera Asamera Oil
Ashland Ashland Oil
BP BP plc
Braspetro Petrobas Internacional SA
Brega Marketing Brega Petroleum Marketing Company
Buttes Buttes Gas & Oil Company
Calasiatic Calasiatic Petroleum Company
PT Caltex PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia
ChevronTexaco ChevronTexaco Corporation
Conoco Continental Oil Company
Corpoven Corpoven SA
DPC Dubai Petroleum Company
EGPC Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation
ExxonMobil ExxonMobil Corporation
GASCO Abu Dhabi Onshore Gas Company
Getty Getty Oil Corporation
Gulf Gulf Oil Corporation
Hispanoil Hispanica de Petroleos SA
INOC Iraq National Oil Company
Inpex Indonesia Petroleum Ltd
JORC Jeddah Oil Refinery Company
KRPC Kaduna Refinery & Petrochemical Company
KNPC Kuwait National Petroleum Company KSC
KOC Kuwait Oil Company KSC
Lagoven Lagoven SA
Maraven Maraven SA
Maxus Maxus Energy Corporation
Mobil Mobil Oil Corporation
NIGC National Iranian Gas Company
NIOC National Iranian Oil Company
NNPC Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
NOC National Oil Corporation (Libya)
NODCO National Oil Distribution Company (Qatar)
NPHR New Port Harcourt Refinery
Oasis Oasis Oil Company of Libya, Inc
Occidental Occidental Petroleum Corporation
OMV OMV Aktiengesellschaft
OPHR Old Port Harcourt Refinery
PDVSA Petroleos de Venezuela SA
Pertamina Perusahaan Pertambangan Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Negara
Petromer Trend Petromer Trend Corporation
Petromin The General Petroleum and Mineral Organization of Saudi Arabia
Phillips Phillips Petroleum Company
PPMC Pipeline and Products Marketing Company (Nigeria)
QGPC Qatar General Petroleum Corporation (now Qatar Petroleum)
Royal Dutch/Shell Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, The Netherlands, and Shell Transport and Trading Co, UK
Sonangol Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola
Sonatrach Entreprise Nationale Sonatrach
Stancal Standard Oil Company of California
PT Stanvac PT Stanvac Indonesia
Tenneco Tenneco Incorporated
Tesoro Tesoro Indonesia Petroleum Corporation
Topco Texas Overseas Petroleum Company
Total Total Corporation
Union Oil Union Oil Company of California
VOO Veba Oil Operations (SP Libyan AJ)
Waha Oil Waha Oil Company (SP Libyan AJ)
Wintershall Wintershall AG
WRPC Warri Refinery & Petrochemical Company
Zadco Zakum Development Company
ZOC Zueitina Oil Company (SP Libyan AJ)
 
SOURCES
Direct communications to the Secretariat
Arab Oil & Gas
BP Statistical Review of World Energy
Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Cedigaz, Natural Gas in the World
Centre for Global Energy Studies
Central Bank reports
Clarkson Research Studies, The Liquid Gas Carrier Register
De Golyer & MacNaughton, Twentieth Century Petroleum Statistics
Eastern Bloc Research, CIS and East European Energy Databook
Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU), country reports and database
Energy Detente
Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy
Fearnleys, Annual Review
Financial Times, Oil and Gas International Yearbook
Galbraith’s Weekly Tanker Fixtures Report
Institute Français du Petrole (IFP), The World Gas Industry
International Energy Agency (IEA), Energy Prices and Taxes; Energy Statistics and Balances; Monthly Oil/Gas Data Services
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Financial Statistics
Middle East Economic Survey
National and international oil companies’ reports
National statistical publications
National Westminster Bank
Oil & Gas Journal
Oil and Energy Trends, Statistics Review
Oil Bulletin Petrolier
Organización Latinoamericana de Energia (OLADE)
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC)
Petroleum Argus
Petroleum Economist
Petroleum Intelligence Weeky (PIW)
Petrostrategies
Platt’s Oilgram
Reuters
Secretariat’s estimates
Simpson Spence & Young, World Oil Tanker Trends
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Definitions and Guidelines
United Nations, Energy Statistics Yearbook; Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
World Bank, World Development Indicators
World Oil
World Petroleum Trends