doe eia 0607 99 issues in midterm analysis and forecasting 1999 august energy information administration office of integrated us department washington dc 20585 this report was prepared by the independent statistical analytical agency within contained herein should be attributed to not construed as advocating or reflecting any policy position other organization publication is on web at www gov oiaf aeoissues html preface presents a series eight papers which cover topics modeling that underlie annual outlook aeo99 well significant markets 0383 published december 1998 national forecasts production demand imports prices through year 2020 for five cases reference case four additional assume higher lower economic growth world oil than were gen erated using s