Progress Report on the RTEIS System

-November 2011 to March 2012 –

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia5-9 March 2012S.Kimura of IEEJ

EWG43 (43rd APEC Energy Working Group Meeting)

Content Update of oil prices

Weekly: Three major crude oil prices (WTI, Brent and Tokyo Dubai) Brent and Tokyo Dubai are approaching to US$130/barrel

and WTI reached to US$110$/barrel in end of February. Monthly: Crude oil prices and several petroleum products

prices No report of an energy emergency from the RTEIS’s

contacts Release of the newsletter

IEEJ’s oil expert analyzes oil price hike with relation to social and economic issues in the world, such as European budgetary deficits.

Update of the contact list of the RTEIS No information from APEC economies

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