Barrels per Day

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Barrels per Day

The most common measure of how much oil a well, company, or country produces. Barrels per day is especially important because oil is priced by the barrel in the commodities market.

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Non-OPEC oil producers such as Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brunei, Equatorial Guinea, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Oman, Russia, Sudan, and South Sudan agreed to reduce output by 558,000 barrels per day starting from January1, 2017.

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In the years after Islamic Revolution, Iran's oil production was ideally four million barrels per day and only under certain occasions and that thanks to the buy-back deals, the amount reached 4.

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The oil supply by the post-Soviet countries will drop by 80,000 barrels per day in 2015 and stand at 13.

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The bottom chart shows Alaska has experienced a steady decline in production since 1988 except for a short pause in the decline of production from 2000-2003 when production remained at nearly 1 million barrels per day.

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During November 2000, production increased in Saudi Arabia by 100 thousand barrels per day; Nigeria by 50 thousand barrels per day; and in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar, each by 5 thousand barrels per day.

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9 million barrels per day during December, the lowest average for the month since 1950.

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