Eurogas Statistical Report

THE EUROPEAN UNION OF THE NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY

EUROGAS
STATISTICAL REPORT

Table of Contents
Introductory Remarks

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Definitions and Units

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Conversion Factors

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Heat Unit Equivalents

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1. Primary Energy Consumption

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2009 Primary Energy Consumption (PEC) in Eurogas Member Countries

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2009 Share of Natural Gas in Primary Energy Consumption (%)

42009 Primary Energy Consumption (PEC) per capita & per GDP unit

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2009 Primary Energy Consumption by fuel (EU)

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2009 Primary Energy Consumption per capita (TOE)

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2. Final Energy Consumption

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2008 Final Energy Consumption (FEC) in Eurogas Member Countries

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2008 Final Energy Consumption by fuel (EU)

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3. Inland Deliveries of Natural Gas

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2009 Inland Salesof Natural Gas by sector in Eurogas Member Countries & EU27

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2009 Natural gas sales by sector

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4. Natural Gas Supplies

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2009 Natural Gas Supplies in Eurogas Member Countries & EU27

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2009 Breakdown of EU27 Supplies

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5. LNG Imports

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2009 LNG Supplies in Eurogas Member Countries & EU27

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2009 Breakdown of EU27 LNG Supplies

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2009 Net imports toEU27 from non-EU Countries by type of transport

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6. Underground Storage Facilities
Natural Gas Underground Storages at 1 January 2010
7. Natural Gas Industry in Figures

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Total length of pipelines

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Number of gas customers

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Number of employees

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8. Natural Gas Reserves

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World Gas and Oil Reserves by region, 2009

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World Reserves /Production Ratios, Gas vs Oil (years)

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Unconventional Gas, estimated World Reserves

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9. Expectations for 2010
10. The European Natural Gas Grid in 2010

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Introductory Remarks
The statistical data presented in this report has been

But since most current technologies of other fossil fuels

collected with the assistance of the national gas associa-

are still notable to recover the latent heat, NCVs need to

tions and member companies of Eurogas. Additionally,

be used rather than GCVs when building an energy bal-

for a full picture of the European Union (EU27), data was

ance; so that natural gas data presented here in MTOE

kindly provided by the natural gas company from Estonia

(million tonnes of oil equivalent) is expressed in NCV.(EestiGas). Malta and Cyprus are not included as they are

For natural gas, the net calorific value is ten percent less

not supplied with natural gas.

than gross calorific value.

As a consequence of the increasing number of players

Natural gas sales and supplies are stated in SI units,

in the liberalized European natural gas market, it is now

Petajoules (PJ - 1015 Joules), because ofdifferent nation-

increasingly difficult to collect energy data. The data

al gas qualities. The data is provided in GCV. In case the

shown in this report is based on available national and

Eurogas data is converted in billion cubic metres, we ad-

gas industry information, completed with best estimates,

vise you to use an assumed energy content of 1 m3 of natural

which Eurogashas combined to give the most compre-

gas of 39 MJ (GCV), which implies that 1 PJ equals approx.

hensive survey at the time of publication. Where no data

25.6 million m3 of natural gas. This corresponds closely to

was available, own estimates have been produced sup-

the weighted average heat content of all natural gas that

plemented with data from international organisations inis sold in EU.

order to obtain an idea of the EU total. Members of the
Eurogas Statistics and Forecasting Committee made a
substantial contribution to this report.

1 PJ (GCV) = 25.6 million m3 gas

Comments and comparisons between 2009 and 2008
refer to the EU totals.

1 m3 natural gas = 39 mega joules (MJ - GCV) = 10.8 kWh
1 Mtoe = 1 million tonnes of oil equivalent = 41.86 PJ...