So I had emailed the DOE (Department of Energy) requesting data regarding the production of crude oil before I started researching elsewhere for data:
Would you have the past few years of Top World Oil Producers records:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/topworldtables1_2.htmlI’m doing a research on oil and petroleum and this data would be extremely helpful to me.
I was only able to find the year 2004 data.
Thanks!
I got a reply back yesterday:
Thank you for your inquiry to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), www.eia.doe.gov.
I apologize for the delay in responding.
We have all world oil producers for all years previous to 1980 at http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tableg2.xls. The link opens up an Excel spreadsheet. All you have to do is use Excel’s sort function to get them in order from greatest to least for any particular year.
I hope this is still helpful.
Indeed the Excel spreadsheet was quite informative. I’ve redrawn my charts.
Top 3 Oil Producing Countries from 1980 to 2003 (since there’s a big gap between the 3rd and 4th):
Oil Producing Countries above 1 million barrels per day from 1980 to 2003:
Do note that USSR falls off the chart after 1991 and Russia’s graph begins in 1992 as you know that the USSR was dissolved in 1991. So the USSR was the top oil producing country/region (not sure if you can call that a country) from 1980 to 1991. When they disassembled, Russia continued the line with about a drop of 2 million barrels per day. The drop continued, but as the graph shows, it hit its low in 1996 and started climbing up again, beating United States in 2004 (the new graph doesn’t have this information), but you can see it in my previous post. United States have just slowly declined as we start to run out of new places to drill and existing oil drills are running out of oil. Saudi Arabia has just continued to keep on climbing, which is quite amazing.
So United States was the top oil producing country from 1992 to 1997, loses to Saudi Arabia in 1998, retakes its leadership in 1999, but has remained at #2 since 2000 onwards and now has dropped to #3 as Russia surpasses our daily oil production.
Just something interesting I thought I’d share.