What percent of the EU oil import or the European oil import was from
Russia for calendar year 2005. Pls state source

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Clarification of Question by 7184-ga on 15 May 2005 15:04 PDT

It should read what percent of the EU or Europes's import of oil in
2004 was from Russia. Aprrox are fine,but you must sight sources

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Request for Question Clarification by websearcher-ga on 15 May 2005 16:45 PDT

Hi 7184:

I did some searching for you, and was able to find the following statistics:

Oil greases the skids for talks with West
Date: May 15, 2005
URL: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050515/COLUMNIST25/505150339
Quote: "Most important for Russia, EU leaders, who rely on it for 20
percent of the union's oil and natural gas imports, promised Mr. Putin
to keep negotiating with Russia on its accession to the World Trade
Organization and visa-free travel to EU countries."

EU, Russia sign deal in bid to end disputes
Date: 11 May 2005 
URL: http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-139268-16&type=News
Quote: "One key consideration for the EU is that Russia is a major
energy supplier for the member states. Russia's Gazprom supplies
around 25% of the EU's natural gas needs, and the EU buys 85% of
Russia's oil exports."

Now, that's not hard and fast figures from *only* 2004, but my
searching shows me that such statistics are not yet available, at
least not in websites that don't charge thousands of dollars for
access.

Will this suffice as an answer to your question?

Thanks. 

websearcher

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Clarification of Question by 7184-ga on 15 May 2005 17:13 PDT

Something is wrong with your figures. For the last several years 50%
of EUs natural gas has come from Russia. The question is how much oil.
I beleive it is 30% of the EU import but I need that verified.

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Request for Question Clarification by websearcher-ga on 15 May 2005 17:30 PDT

Hi 7184:

Well, I was able to find on very good reference to the 30% figure at:

The EU-Russia Energy Dialogue
URL: http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy/russia/presentations/doc/2004_berlin_en.pdf
Quote: "Data: EU-25 today
? 30% of oil imports from Russia
? 50% of gas imports from Russia"

While it is obvious from the filename (2004_berlin_en.pdf) that this
presentation was given in 2004, there is no actual date in the file
and no exact indication of when the given figures are from.

However, the source of this information is certainly a good one!

http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm

Is that sufficient to your needs?

Thanks. 

websearcher

Hi 7184:

Well, I was able to find on very good reference to the 30% figure at:

The EU-Russia Energy Dialogue
URL: http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy/russia/presentations/doc/2004_berlin_en.pdf
Quote: "Data: EU-25 today
? 30% of oil imports from Russia
? 50% of gas imports from Russia"

While it is obvious from the filename (2004_berlin_en.pdf) that this
presentation was given in 2004, there is no actual date in the file
and no exact indication of when the given figures are from.

However, the source of this information is certainly a good one!

http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm

Search Strategy (on Google):
* EU "oil imports" 2004 russia 
* "european union "oil imports" 2004 
* "european union "oil statistics" imports 2004
* "oil statistics" 2004 site:.gov 
* "oil statistics" 2004 site:.org 

websearcher

The year 2005 is not over yet, so I doubt that there will be final
statistics for that year...

Scriptor

I made a typo -should be for calendar year 2004

yes that is perfect.
thanks

Being the author of the Berlin presentation I can confirm that these
figures are for 2004, bearing in mind also that they take already into
account the new Member States which joined the EU on May 1 2004.  You
won't find something more recent...