Global consumption of petroleum and other liquids will rise an average of 1.3 million b/d in 2014 and 1.4 million b/d in 2015, exceeding 93 billion b/d by second-half 2015, according to the most recent Short-Term Energy Outlook released by the US Energy Information Administration. EIA said global consumption of petroleum and other liquids rose by 1.2 million b/d in 2013, exceeding 91 million b/d by the year’s second half. Major uncertainties surround its 2014-15 global oil supply outlook, however. These include lingering unplanned global supply disruptions and unknown US oil production growth, which is attributable to upward US onshore supply risk due to drilling technological innovations and downward production risk in the federal Gulf of Mexico because of potential project delays and hurricane or maintenance outages. Kazakhstan’s Kashagan oil field and North Sea maintenance will also contribute to short-term global supply fluctuations. EIA estimates US total crude oil […]