Crude and petroleum products balance sheet; supply and consumption

Table explanation

Description topics

Supply

The amount of crudes and petroleum products that has primarily become available for consumption in the Netherlands. Supply is calculated as indigenous production plus other sources plus production plus imports minus exports minus bunkers plus stock changes. This calculation of the supply results in the amount of crudes and petroleum products consumed in the Netherlands in the period concerned.

Total supply

Total of the amount of petroleum crudes and petroleum products that have primarily become available for consumption in the Netherlands.

Indigenous production

Extraction of energy commodities from nature. Crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGL) are extracted from the bottom on shore or in the Dutch part of the North Sea.

Other sources

This item is the calculation of indigenous production plus imports minus exports of bioadditives.

Production

Production of petroleum products by transforming crude or other petroleum products, e.g. production of motor gasoline by refining crude oil.

Total production

Total production of petroleum products at the refineries, the petrochemical industry and other oil companies.

Refineries

Companies that transform crude oil and other feedstocks into useful fossil fuels and other petroleum products. Fuels are LPG, motor gasoline, kerosene and gasoil. Other products are e.g. lubricants and asphalt. The most important step in the refinery is distillation. Crude oil is heated and headed through a column. This process yields several petroleum products such as residual gases at the top of the column and heavy products at the bottom.

Petrochemical industry

Companies that transform petroleum products into chemical products. Some other petroleum products become available as a by-product. These come to the market along with petroleum products from refineries. For example the transformation of the chemical product ethylene (a feedstock for plastic) into naphtha and the petroleum product automotive gas delivered to the market for consumption as fuel.

Other oil companies

Companies storing or trading petroleum products. In common these companies blend petroleum products just before they are delivered to the market. For example addition more or less additives to motor gasoline or transport diesel to meet summer or winter specifications.

Imports

Imports of crudes and petroleum products.

Total imports

Inland

Receipts of crudes and petroleum products from abroad directly to the inland.

Bonded area

Receipts of crudes and petroleum products from abroad to the bonded area. Bonded area is a fiscal place for goods for transit trade.