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REPAIR OR                                                         T Administration forecasts that
                                                                                        he global oil and gas industry
                                                                                        has recovered strongly from the
                                                                                        initial impact of the pandemic.
                                                                                        The US Energy Industry

                                                                                   global oil consumption will grow by 3.6
                 REPLACE?                                                          million barrels per day (b/d) in 2022
                                                                                   and by 1.8 million b/d in 2023, reaching
                                                                                   100.5 million b/d in 2022 and 102.3
                                                                                   million b/d in 2023.
                                                                                     Global gas demand is increasingly
                                                                                   robust also. It was expected to rise by
                                                                                   3.6 per cent in 2021 before easing to
                                                                                   an average growth rate of 1.7 per cent
                 Stuart Querns, Director for Enterprise Asset Management           over the next three years, according to
                 (EAM), Delaware United Kingdom, explains how predictive           the IEA’s quarterly Gas Market Report,
                                                                                   which also delivers a new medium-
                 maintenance can help gas firms to keep systems running and        term forecast. By 2024, demand is
                 maintain a lid on costs                                           forecast to be up by seven per cent on



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