The oil-slick trade: An analysis of embodied crude oil in China's trade and consumption
Wencheng Zhang,
Rui Wei and
Shuijun Peng
Energy Economics, 2020, vol. 88, issue C
Abstract:
China has become the world's second largest crude oil importer and consumer. The international fragmentation of production has had an important impact on China's oil consumption, which cannot be assessed adequately through only checking China's trade data of crude oil. Based on a global multi-regional input–output model, we examine crude oil embodied in China's trade during 1995–2011. The results show that approximately one fifth to one third of imported oil in China is re-exported through producing commodities and services for satisfying final consumption outside China. We show that China is playing a role as a transit hub of crude oil from extraction locations to global consumers, particularly those in advanced countries. Foreign consumers actually benefit from China's global seeking of natural resources, a fact that is usually overlooked by critics of China's oil thirst. In addition, we show that China's oil import dependence assessed from the consumption side is greater than when assessed from the production side, shedding new light on the discussion of energy security in China.
Keywords: Embodied crude oil; Multi-regional input–output analysis; Oil demand from consumption; Oil import dependence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104763
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