H Houri Jafari - Energy Management Department, Institute for International Energy Studies (IIES)
A Hamidinezhad - Energy Management Department, Institute for International Energy Studies (IIES)
B Farahmand pour - Energy Management Department, Institute for International Energy Studies (IIES)

Regarding to limited resources of Fossil fuels, supply-demand management and energy planning in the end-user sectors is a great matter of importance. Energy Balance is one the most important tools for reviewing historical trends of energy supply and demand for petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, renewable energies and other energy carriers.We attempt to assess Iran's energy balance with the aim of its historical trends in last decade and extract the effective causes of tremendous amount of energy consumption. In fact, we have presented Iran's energy information at a glance for year 2007. This information is exactly extracted from oil and gas industry due to the study performed by Institute for International Energy Studies, and published by the name of Iran's Hydrocarbons Energy Balance. In this way, Total Primary Energy Production of Iran was 2822.1 MMBOE (Million Barrels of Oil Equivalent). Final Energy Consumption with a growth rate of 10.66%, in comparison with 2006, reached to 1136.19 MMBOE. Also GDP experienced 6.89% Growth rate and from 446880 billion Rials (1997 constant prices) in 2006 reached to ٤٧٧٦٨٣ billion Rials in 2007. Therefore, Primary Energy Supply Intensity from 3.24 Barrels per million Rials in 2006 (1997 constant prices) increased to 3.27 in 2007. The conclusions suggest strongly not only that the low price of energy, but also low capacity of crude oil production and refining with conventional technology likewise affect on tremendous consumption. Therefore production will not cover the demand, especially about natural gas, in the near future.

Energy Balance, Iran, Petroleum, Natural Gas, petrochemical industries,electricity