OIL SUPPLY SECURITY IN CROATIA

Abstract

The occurrences on the global energy market, increased market instability and the increasingly significant role of geopolitics in energy supply, continually impact the energy supply security which represents the main postulate of the energy politics, as well as a criterion of its successfulness. Assurance of an uninterrupted oil and gas supply is the basic task of each national energy policy. Possibilities and conditions of the supply of primary energy sources, among which oil and natural gas are by far the most important energy sources in relation to their share in energy consumption, and as regards their strategic importance, these represent the basis for assurance of oil and natural gas supply security within the national energy supply. Oil supply security in Croatia is directed towards determining the critical energy supply infrastructure from the viewpoint of energy supply security, towards creating a system for continued oil supply security analysis and monitoring, acting in critical supply situations and towards an elaboration of measures for prevention and amortization in cases of endangerment of energy supply security.