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<\/a><\/p>\nCountry x Year = Million Barrels Per Day<\/p>\n
You can also download my Excel spreadsheet: Top World Oil Products – Chart and Data Set<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you enlarge the chart, you’ll see that United States was the #1 oil producing country for the years 2001 and 2002. However we fell to #2 in year 2003 and and now down to #3 in year 2004. Unfortunately year 2005 data has not been released yet.<\/p>\n This whole research was sparked off reading this blog entry: We Need a War for Oil<\/a> (from HKenshin), because I was certain that U.S. was either #1 or #2, but was shocked when I found out we dropped even further to #3.<\/p>\n Sources: Top World Oil Tables<\/a><\/p>\n One would wonder why if America is one of the top 3 oil producing countries, why do we still have shortages and have to bend our backs for OPEC. If you look at the Top World Oil Producers, 2004<\/a> table, you’ll notice that Saudi Arabia exports 8.73 million barrels per day (84.2%) and Russia exports 6.67 million barrels per day (72.0%), but United States is nowhere to be found on that list. I’d like to bring your attention to another table: Top World Oil Consumers, 2004<\/a>. The United States consumes 20.7 million barrels per day (we only produce 8.69 million barrels per day) and we import 12.1 million barrels per day. That means we consume 238% of what we produce.<\/p>\n So yah… now you know why.<\/p>\n Shoot, maybe I should go to bed now. It’s 7:15am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since I was small, my dad’s always told me U.S. was the biggest Oil Producing country and I didn’t really believe him since it always seemed that most of our oil comes from the middle east. However, I reported last summer that we were actually 2nd. I’ve been following the trail and started plotting points … <\/p>\n | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004
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\nSaudi Arabia | 9.12 | 8.73 | 8.54 | 9.95 | 10.37
\nRussia | 6.71 | 7.29 | 7.65 | 8.44 | 9.27
\nUnited States | 9.08 | 9.02 | 9.08 | 8.84 | 8.69
\nIran | 3.81 | 3.82 | 3.54 | 3.87 | 4.09
\nMexico | 3.48 | 3.59 | 3.61 | 3.79 | 3.83
\nChina | 3.25 | 3.30 | 3.37 | 3.54 | 3.62
\nNorway | 3.32 | 3.41 | 3.33 | 3.27 | 3.18
\nCanada | 2.74 | 2.80 | 2.94 | 3.11 | 3.14
\nVenezuela | 3.14 | 3.07 | 2.91 | 2.58 | 2.86
\nUnited Arab Emirates | 2.51 | 2.42 | 2.38 | 2.66 | 2.76
\nKuwait | 2.25 | 2.15 | 2.02 | 2.32 | 2.51
\nNigeria | 2.15 | 2.26 | 2.12 | 2.25 | 2.51
\nUnited Kingdom | 2.75 | 2.59 | 2.55 | 2.39 | 2.08
\nIraq | 2.59 | 2.45 | 2.04 | | 2.03<\/code><\/p>\n\n