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Oil use up

Oil consumption by big non-communist industrialised countries rose 2.3 per cent to 386.5 million tonnes in the second quarter of 1977, compared with the same period last year, the International Energy Agency has said this was a significant slowing from a growth rate of 3.9 per cent in the first quarter of 1977 for the 24nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the agency said. Most of the over-all rise was accounted for by a 4.4 per cent increase in Japanese consumption and a 32 per cent rise in the United States. European consumption showed no change, the agency added. — Paris.

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Press, 12 November 1977, Page 9

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Oil use up Press, 12 November 1977, Page 9

Oil use up Press, 12 November 1977, Page 9