OPEC December Production Data

All OPEC data below is from the January OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report. All OPEC data is through December 2018 and is thousand barrels per day.

Qatar has left OPEC and is not included in this months report. All Qatar historical data has been removed from all OPEC charts.

OPEC 14 production was down by 751,000 barrels per day in December. That was after November production had been revised downward by 23,000 barrels per day.

Here you can see who had the big declines in December.

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OPEC July Crude Production Data

All OPEC data is from the latest OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report and is in thousand barrels per day. All data is through July 2018.

OPEC crude oil production was up 41,000 barrels per day in July but that was after June production was revised down by 43,000 bpd. So OPEC production is actually down 2,000 bpd from what was reported last month.

The big difference here is in what secondary sources says Saudi Arabia produced in July, down 52,800 bpd, and what Saudi says they produced, down 200,5000 bpd. What Venezuela says they produced has no basis in reality.

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World Oil 2018-2050: World Energy Annual Report (Part 2)

 

A guest post by Dr. Minqi Li, Professor

Department of Economics, University of Utah
E-mail: minqi.li@economics.utah.edu

July 2018

This is Part 2 of the World Energy Annual Report in 2018. This part of the Annual Report provides updated analysis of world oil production and consumption, evaluates the future prospect of world oil supply and considers the implications of peak oil production for global economic growth.

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