Provisional energy balance for the year 1998

After a recall of the international and national economical context of 1998, this report makes a statement of the French energy consumption, demand, import and export during the year 1998. Details are given for primary energy (consumption, prices, national production, energy independence, energy shares in the consumption), and separately for coal, petroleum, natural gas and renewable energies. A sectoral analysis of the structure of the final consumption (industry, agriculture, residential-tertiary, transports) is presented in tables and the evolution of CO2 emissions are briefly evoked (J.S.)