Large differences in regional energy prices are set to affect industrial competitiveness, influencing investment decisions and company strategies. The extraordinary rise of light tight oil in the United States will play a major role in meeting global demand growth over the next decade, but the Middle East – the only large source of low-cost oil – will remain at the centre of the longer-term oil outlook. India is set to overtake China in the 2020s as the principal source of growth in global energy demand.
World Energy Outlook 2013 (Released on 12 November 2013)
OECD/IEA
http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/publications/weo-2013/
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