Liquid fuels Sankey incorrectly includes export of crude oil

[kndehaan]

Context

The Liquid fuels sankey shows relevant flows of liquid fuels production to final demand sectors and export. In a blank scenario for Norway, the sankey is not balanced which is visible via the significant flow of oil products to export:

The query behind this flow is oil_products_to_export. This query includes all nodes with group energy_export and input of crude_oil.

Whereas in this sankey only the flow from other oil products to export should be included (node energy_export_oil_products), the flows to energy_export_crude_oil_backup and energy_export_crude_oil_baseload are now also included. This causes the imbalance.

Proposed solutions

The query oil_products_to_export (which is only used in the liquid fuels sankey) should only include flows to node energy_export_oil_products.

[linear]

MD-704

[mabijkerk]

To me it seems more like oil extraction flow is missing. Norway extracts and then exports a lot of crude. I think it would be nice to show this in the diagram.

So instead of removing the crude oil exports, I think somehow we should include crude oil extraction. Do you agree?

[kndehaan]

That's another way to look at it. For such a country with significant crude oil extraction, it would indeed be valuable to see this flow as well. So good suggestion to include full oil extraction flow here instead of only the part going to oil refinery!