A record, not an opinion.

01 What a record is

A record is one publication of Eurabelt Publications: a statistical record, a price record, a release note, an article, a bulletin, an edition, a weekly digest, a government white paper or an executive brief. Every record carries a permanent code, a title, a standfirst, its text, the date and time of publication in UTC and, where it states facts taken from others, the numbered list of its sources.

A record states what was published. It does not interpret, forecast, advise or advocate.

02 Where records come from

Records are compiled from Eurabelt Fuels Global Statistics, which reads official publishers only. The bot that compiles the record reads nothing else: it takes no figures from news reports, social media or unattributed material.

The government white papers and executive briefs are the house publications of Eurabelt Fuels Ltd, one pair for each of 9 named governments and regional institutions. Every figure in them is sourced to a primary authority.

03 The kinds of record

Articles and bulletins

Written in Global Statistics strictly from three cited official sources and approved by a Custodian before publication. The bot records only items that have been approved and published publicly there, with their citation marks and numbered sources as approved.

Editions

Numbered editions of Eurabelt Publications as compiled in Global Statistics. An edition lists its stories; each story is a record of its own.

Statistical records

Each new period of each ranking published on Global Statistics becomes a statistical record. The first time a ranking is seen, up to two earlier complete periods are recorded too, so that a series starts with its history. A statistical record lists the first 15 rows of the ranking in the order published, with each figure as published: rank, country, value and unit, share of the total, the value for the previous period, the change and the previous rank.

Price records

Official price benchmarks from the Global Statistics broadcast stream, stated as published by the source, with a link to it.

Release notes

Notices from the Global Statistics broadcast stream that an official publisher has released a document. A release note records the release and links to the publisher; it does not summarise or interpret the document.

Weekly digests

Compiled by the first run after Monday 00:00 UTC: every record published in the preceding week, Monday to Sunday, grouped by kind. A digest adds nothing to the records it lists.

White papers and executive briefs

The house publications for governments, each recorded with the key facts it establishes and their publishers, and a link to the full document.

04 How a record is written

Statistical records state each figure as published — rank, value, share, change — in plain sentences such as “Canada ranked 4th with 5,000 thousand barrels per day”. They use no adjectives, no forecasts and no opinion. Price records and release notes are recorded as published by the source. Articles are written strictly from their three cited official sources; every statement carries a citation mark, and every mark leads to a numbered source at the foot of the record.

Charts on this site are drawn from the figures held in the record and from nothing else. Bars start at zero; values are printed on the chart; no figure is estimated or interpolated.

05 Numbering

Every record is numbered EBF-PUB-YYYY-NNNN: the year of publication and a four-digit sequence that starts again at 0001 each year, for example EBF-PUB-2026-0001. A code is given once, when a record is first published. It never changes, even when the record is updated, and it is never reused, even when a record is withdrawn.

A record can be reached by its address, /record/<title>, or by its code, /record/EBF-PUB-2026-0001. The library search also finds a record by its code.

06 Corrections and withdrawals

On every run the bot reads its sources again and compares each item with the record it holds. When the source has changed its publication — a revised figure, a corrected sentence, a new source — the record is updated in place: it keeps its code and its address, and shows the date and time it was updated beside the date it was first published.

When an article or bulletin is withdrawn on Eurabelt Fuels Global Statistics — it no longer appears in the public list and its address there returns “not found” — the record is withdrawn here too. A withdrawn record leaves the library, the feeds and the similarity links, and its address states that it has been withdrawn. This check covers the records of the past year. The bot never deletes a record.

07 Tags and similarity links

Each record is tagged with the countries named in it — taken from the ranking itself for statistical records, otherwise read from the title, standfirst and text — and with topics from a fixed dictionary: Crude oil, Refining, Natural gas and LNG, Fuel prices, Price benchmarks, Production, Trade and exports, Shipping and routes, Electricity, Energy transition, Verification and compliance, Policy and regulation.

Records are then linked to the records most similar to them. For every pair, a score is computed: 4 if both belong to the same series, plus 3 for each country they share, plus 2 for each topic they share, plus 10 times the overlap of their vocabulary (the share of significant words they have in common). Pairs scoring 4 or more are linked, up to eight links per record, and links are mutual. The links are recomputed whenever a record is published or updated. They appear under “Related records” on every record.

08 The bot

The publications bot runs every hour. Each run reads, in order: the house publications, the approved public publications of Global Statistics, the published rankings, the broadcast stream of prices and releases, and, once a week, the week for the digest. A lock prevents two runs from overlapping. Each run is logged with the number of records created, updated and withdrawn and any errors; the log is kept for 90 days.

09 No cookies, no third parties

This site sets no cookies and makes no third-party requests. Its fonts are served from this site, it uses no content delivery networks, analytics or advertising, and its share buttons are plain links built in your browser — nothing is sent to a social network unless you choose to share. The record is also published as an RSS feed and a JSON Feed.

10 Citing a record

Cite a record by its code. Every record shows its citation, ready to copy, in this form:

Eurabelt Publications (YEAR). TITLE. Record EBF-PUB-YYYY-NNNN. publications.eurabeltfuels.eu/record/ADDRESS

Where a record states a figure from an official source, cite that source as well; it is listed, numbered, on the record. See Publication use for reproducing the publications.