OPEC Update, January 2024

D Coyne 245 Comments

The OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) for January 2024 was published recently. The last month reported in most of the OPEC charts that follow is December 2023 and output reported for OPEC nations is crude oil output in thousands of barrels per day (kb/d). In many of the OPEC charts that follow the blue line with markers is monthly output and the thin red line is the centered twelve month average (CTMA) output.  For the first chart I compare OPEC- 13 with OPEC -12 due to Angola deciding to leave OPEC and reducing the number of OPEC nations by one.

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September World Oil Production Rebounds

Ovi 170 Comments

By Ovi

Below are a number of Crude plus Condensate (C + C) production charts, usually shortened to “oil”, for oil producing countries. The charts are created from data provided by the EIA’s International Energy Statistics and are updated to September 2023. This is the latest and most detailed/complete World Oil production information available. Information from other sources such as OPEC, the STEO and country specific sites such as Russia, Brazil, Norway and China is used to provide a short term outlook for future output and direction for a few of these countries and the World.

World Oil Production and Projection

World oil production increased by 927 kb/d in September, green graph. The largest increase came from Saudi Arabia 500 kb/d while the US added 224 kb/d and Brazil 210 kb/d.

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