International Energy Agency: How the Agency Prepares Its World Oil Market Statistics

RCED-99-142 Published: May 07, 1999. Publicly Released: Jun 07, 1999.

Highlights

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) how the International Energy Agency (IEA) prepares its world oil market statistics; and (2) what accounted for the missing barrels in IEA's historical world oil market statistics in 1998.

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