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Brunei
Last Updated: March 2016
Overview
Map of Brunei
![Map of Brunei Map of Brunei](images/country_maps/BRN.jpg)
- Brunei's small, wealthy economy is based heavily upon proceeds from exports of crude oil and natural gas. Brunei relies on hydrocarbon revenues for nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product and the vast majority of its merchandise exports and government revenues. Lower international oil prices since late 2014 have dampened the country's export revenues. However, the government intends to bolster investment in its oil and gas sector and diversify the country's economic base by promoting growth in other industries over the long term.
- Brunei's government latest energy policy from 2014 includes attracting US$50-$57 billion in foreign investment over the next 20 years in hopes of boosting the country's oil and gas reserves and production levels and diversifying the country's energy supply.
Petroleum and other liquids
- Brunei's proved oil reserve estimate was 1.1 billion barrels as of the beginning of 2016, the fourth highest in Southeast Asia, according to the Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ). Through its long-standing joint venture with Royal Dutch Shell, Brunei has produced oil and natural gas for several decades, primarily from two large, mature fields - Southwest Ampa and Champion - in the offshore Baram Delta. After reaching a peak of 221,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2006, Brunei's petroleum and other liquids production has declined by nearly half to an estimated 125,000 bbl/d in 2015. Many of Brunei's currently-producing oil and natural gas fields are aging, and much of the shallow waters around the country have been explored. Also, several oil facilities have been undergoing refurbishment over the past few years. Maintenance of these facilities is scheduled to be completed by 2016 at the earliest, which could allow production to recover some recent losses.
- Brunei has an interest in hydrocarbon development in the South China Sea (SCS), and it makes only one claim in the hotly contested Spratly Islands - the Louisa Reef, a small island that is part of the country's exclusive economic zone and is located in the southeastern part of the Spratly Islands. The Louisa Reef also lies within China's 'nine-dash line', a sizeable claim to the South China Sea which also encompasses all of the Spratly Islands. An offshore settlement with Malaysia in 2010 allows Brunei to explore untapped and formerly disputed deepwater areas in the Baram Delta (namely Commercial Areas 1 and 2) and issue more production sharing contracts to help prop up oil and natural gas production and offset declines from older existing fields. Petronas of Malaysia and Brunei National Petroleum Company (Petroleum Brunei) signed a 40-year agreement in 2010 to jointly explore these two blocks. In 2013, PetroleumBrunei and Petronas of Malaysia signed several cooperation agreements for joint development of oil and natural gas fields in both countries' deepwater offshore areas. The national oil companies of both countries are actively exploring and anticipate hydrocarbon production in the joint commercial areas to begin by 2021.
- Despite the recent decline in production, Brunei is the largest net exporter of petroleum liquids in the Asia-Pacific region given the country's minimal domestic consumption. In 2015, Brunei's net exports of total liquids were about 110,000 bbl/d, primarily crude oil sent to key Asian oil consumers, including Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, China, and Malaysia. Brunei plans to expand its refinery capacity, as Chinese company Zhejiang Hengyi Group has plans to construct a new refinery with a capacity of 148,000 bbl/d. However, the project has encountered several delays since 2011. If built, this new facility could shift the dynamics of the country's oil exports in favor of consuming more crude oil and exporting more petroleum products.
Natural gas
- Brunei's proved oil reserve estimate was 13.8 trillion cubic feet as of the beginning of 2016, according to the Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ). Brunei produced about 419 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of marketed natural gas in 2014, following a steady decline from a high in 2011 of 452 Bcf. Most of the natural gas output is from Southwest Ampa, Champion, and other fields associated with oil production. Although domestic gas demand has increased steadily in the past decade, Brunei still exports on average about three-quarters of its output. French major Total, made significant natural gas and condensate discoveries in Block B in 2010 which could bolster Brunei's natural gas reserve base, sustain its production levels, and support LNG exports over the next decade. The company plans to add about 30 Bcf/y of production from its second phase of production from the Maharaja Lela field development in 2016 to help offset natural declines and extend the field's output to 2035.
- Brunei has been a stable and long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter to Japan and Korea from its 5-train, 950 million cubic feet per day Lumut LNG liquefaction plant. Brunei exported about 317 Bcf in 2015, a 6% increase from 2014. However, exports have not fully recovered after an 11% drop between 2013 and 2014 as a result of contract changes and growing domestic demands. South Korea and Japan renewed several of their long-term contracts in 2013 for significantly shorter terms, and Japan reduced its contracted volumes. These new contracts are set to expire by 2023. The drop in contracted LNG exports has prompted Brunei LNG to sell to other regional buyers and seek short-term contracts or spot cargo sales. Brunei LNG signed a 10-year contract with Petronas of Malaysia starting in 2013 and began sending spot cargoes to other Asian consumers, including India, China, and Taiwan. Brunei's increasing domestic demand for natural gas from the power and petrochemical sectors is likely to compete with LNG exports, and more of the country's gas production could shift to domestic needs.
Electricity
- Natural gas fuels virtually all of Brunei's electricity generation. However, the country is seeking to diversify its generation mix by building more renewable generation capacity, mainly through photovoltaic power plants and waste-to-energy projects. Brunei also has plans to import electricity through a potential transmission line from Malaysia.
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12/01/2016 - Italy
First of all, congrats for this huge and helpful dataset!Secondly, how can I recover the data for Biodiesel production and see them in the chart/table? The Source button seem not to do any changes.. Thanks a lot again
11/28/2016 - Colombia
It would be easier, if when using metric units, instead of writing "billion kWh" you would specify whether this is 10^9 (as in english speaking countries) or 10^12 (everywhere else). Am I correct to assume 1 billion kW equal 1 GW?
11/19/2016 - Missouri, United States
International energy - consumption per capita years 2010 and 2011 seem wildly out of line with the previous years. US goes for 308 to 69,595 in 2010? Seems incorrect
11/11/2016 - Indiana, United States
I very much liked the previous version where excel downloaded data was much easier to work with. With this new version and the way it generates excel files when we download data, it takes me a huge amount of time to effectively use a downloaded file.
11/11/2016 - Virginia, United States
Per capita consumption data for 2011 by continent is coming up strangely. For global consumption of 529 Quad BTUs, it's showing per capita 9.5 trillion BTUs (which would assume a world pop. ~56,000).
11/02/2016 - India
Hi, great work with the interface. However, there are parts of the database that we could access in the previous version, that we are unable to access here (Imports and exports of petroleum crude and products, consumption of renewable energy in QTBTU among others). It would be great if these issues were cleared up asap so as to improve usability and access to data. Thank you!
10/24/2016 - India
Hi, We are unable to download crude oil and refined petroleum products imports by country. Kindly help.
10/13/2016 - Iran
Can you please create new links for your new things? I just saved a link for total renewable electricity net consumption, every time I just use this link address, but this time because of your update, it was not found. It makes me confused, I need this data in excel format, I search all of your website, I did not find this variable data/
10/11/2016 - New York, United States
The old system to download data was much easier - why fix something that worked well. I saw a comment that person can download all countries - I can not find that. Can you please direct me to it - thanks
10/01/2016 - Texas, United States
I'm just curious why the data period ends at 2013 - it's now Oct 2016 - seems like there should be data at least thru 2015. Has the beta site been replaced? Am I just in the wrong place?
09/28/2016 - Japan
I'm using the data for elec. generation (e.g. PV or wind) for my own research. Before this version, the data were down to 3 to 4 decimal places. However, only 1 decimal seems to be shown in Beta. It would be more useful and helpful for research if some options for more decimal place were added or units could be modified (e.g. other than billion kWh for generation). Thanks.
09/13/2016 - Norway
Hi, this gives me a very interesting picture of the global energy sector. Thank you.
08/29/2016 - Texas, United States
The organization of downloaded CSV data makes the data almost unusable. All headers for each country are shown as having equal value to the country itself so the data cannot be sorted without losing the country identification. I downloaded All Countries>Crude Oil and Lease Condensate Production. Column B makes every heading equal i.e., the country and various information headings. It is unfortunate that a download cannot be directly used but it is frustrating that as an expert Excel user I cannot easily determine a way to organize the data in a way that makes it usable. Thanks, Art Berman
08/16/2016 - Texas, United States
Really helpful and easy to use.
08/12/2016 - United Kingdom
Excellent. This is much easier to navigate and use.
07/27/2016 - Brazil
Excelent job! What does the "other liquids" in Total Petroleum and Other Liquids Production 2015 include?
07/18/2016 - India
Very useful data. However, it would be great if you could mention how much of India's energy (especially oil and gas) imports come by sea, in order to get a clearer picture of India's energy imports.
06/23/2016 - United Kingdom
I was using your import figures for china i.e. the pie chart for percentage world wide imports 2014 and when added up it is 99% rather than 100.
06/22/2016 - Japan
More new information will be helpful to understand global enegy situation.
06/15/2016 - Ecuador
Srs, I am probably one of the thousands readers that are eager to learn of the new information produced by EIA. Excellent, by the way. OPEC report on revenue is very informative. Our governments always keep us in the dark. Why???. Thank you
06/07/2016 - United Kingdom
Amazing data, thank you very much!
05/25/2016 - China
Very helpful information!! Well researched, clear figures and graphs.
05/18/2016 - California, United States
There is no data available for the petroleum or natural gas reserves in the U.S.A.
05/01/2016 - Australia
It is incredibly frustrating trying to view the data you want. Today I simply want to view the imports of crude oil in bbld in South Africa. BTU is a completely unhelpful metric.
04/22/2016 - California, United States
2014?? Where are the production numbers of 2015 and up 4/22/16?
04/03/2016 - United Kingdom
Fantastic resource. Very well researched, clear and easy figures and graphs. Well organised too. Incredible useful!
03/08/2016 - District of Columbia, United States
What a handy tool, thanks!
03/06/2016 - New Jersey, United States
Well organized information with easy access.
02/15/2016 - West Virginia, United States
Very helpful information!
02/14/2016 - China
I like the old version which had a country brief.
02/09/2016 - Saudi Arabia
Excellent work for the country analysis. However, i'm struggling to cite the South African country analysis report....would appreciate if you could sent it
01/30/2016 - Spain
Your website is very useful for me as a teacher, particularly the world thematic maps. My students like it as well. Thanks a lot!
01/22/2016 - Vietnam
Useful data for my work. Thanks sincerely.
01/04/2016 - Canada
Best government website ever
01/02/2016 - Turkey
Goood
12/29/2015 - Michigan, United States
We use your 'Total Electricity Net Consumption' data for comparing countries for a market potential index we create each year. Data in the previous years was available up to 5 decimal places. However, data is available with only 1 decimal place this year (through the beta interface) and comparing countries became a challenge because there are too many countries with the same values now. Is there a way to download the full data-set with all the decimal points available?
12/22/2015 - United Kingdom
Brilliant bit of website, made my life a thousand times easier!
12/06/2015 - Argentina
Excellent!!
11/29/2015 - Malaysia
May I know if there is a latest write up on Malaysia year 2015. The one I have obtained is 2014.
11/21/2015 - Virginia, United States
Terrific article on Brazil...thank you.
11/20/2015 - Egypt
I note that the analysis of energy in Israel in this site is not covered in details as other countries?
11/17/2015 - Michigan, United States
Great PDF file on Canada's energy and trade success! Exactly what I needed to bring me up to speed for my research on Michigan and on the Midwest - thanks! (Mike at McGuire Research)
11/15/2015 - California, United States
Why are your maps so hard to copy and past? It should be easy to get a nice graph of yours.
11/12/2015 - Alabama, United States
I work with Excel spreadsheets. I looked at your Excel download function and examined your Excel spreadsheet. It appears that if I am going to load the data into my spreadsheets, I will have to do one line at a time, each country individualy.
10/06/2015 - United Kingdom
The analysis on South Korea was a very interesting and worthwhile read. Great to see such an informed analysis presented with tables to illustrate it
09/30/2015 - France
Excellent interface, very very efficient. Having global data is definitely a plus. Too bad data goes up to 2012 and does not include 2013 and 2014. Comments coming from an IT manager used to major systems with large databases.
09/12/2015 - India
I always rely on data published by EIA to make various comparisons and analysis reports. This tool makes my job much easier.
09/11/2015 - Russia
Amazing tool, thank you for such a useful application for data export .
08/16/2015 - Colorado, United States
So... Pretty! Really appreciate you guys going the extra mile with your data tools, this makes my research so much more effective. You guys have been an utter joy to work with (not a typical experience for government bureaucracy), and this new beta is the icing on the cake. Thanks for the hard work you have put in to make this information clear and understandable! Looking forward to seeing what you guys cook up in the future.
06/09/2015 - District of Columbia, United States
Why can't I download any of this to spreadsheets? Why can't I download multiple years?
06/01/2015 - Nigeria
Dear Sirs, I have been using your data for almost 20 yrs, in particular the international Petroleum data. I like the granularity provided, by country by month. Unfortunately it seems from the beta site, that I can only access the annual data and only download as a CSV file. Is that correct? regards Casper
05/31/2015 - Virginia, United States
Where are the country pages!!!? I am writing a book chapter and referenced your site, where I found terrific info on India and Japan several months ago. Unfortunately, it appears you deleted those pages. Why?
05/27/2015 - Antarctica
I really love this beautiful webpage! It is very wonderful:) I love learning about this stuff!
05/25/2015 -
I need to access country profiles in .pdf form.
05/20/2015 - New York, United States
Thank you for all the info and help over the past few years. Before the layout, I was able to find annual #s of net exports of petro for each country, and now I have no idea where it is.
05/20/2015 - New York, United States
I am looking for bbl and bcf , not Btu , can you tell me where to look for country's oil bbl and gas in bcf? Thanks
05/20/2015 - Canada
Where can I find the original spreadsheets with the country data for Crude + Condensate and the one for all liquids. The new look is too complicated for me. The spreadsheet is more easily used for good analysis.
05/19/2015 - Texas, United States
Would like a link to the pdf of the entire country analysis brief.