Ron Patterson is a retired computer engineer. He worked in Saudi Arabia for five years, two years at the Ghazlan Power Plant near Ras Tanura and three years with Aramco in Ras Tanura and Safaniya. He worked a short time as a stockbroker and a commodities broker but found the business did not suit his talents and returned to the computer industry in 1987. He spent the last 17 years of his career at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. He retired in 2004.
Production History And Reserves UK oil production peaked in 1999. The peak was probably pushed out a couple of years because of the major production…
All data below is based on the latest OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report. All data is through July 2017 and is in thousand barrels per day. (Click to…
Gulf of Mexico Production Production for May by BOEM was 1673 kbpd and by EIA 1661, compared with 1661 and 1658 kbpd, respectively in April.…
Brazil is a major oil producing country, but in 2016 was still a net importer, though imports dropped significantly and they have been a slight…
All data below is based on the latest OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report. All data is through June 2017 and is in thousand barrels per day. (Click to enlarge) …
(Click to enlarge)Dean Fantazzini has provided me with updates to Texas Oil and Natural Gas estimates, the data shifted about a year ago so I…
In dollar terms, since mid-2015 Mexico has been a net importer of hydrocarbons (oil, natural gas, petroleum products and petrochemicals combined). To date it has…
All data below is based on the latest OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report. All data is through May 2017 and is in thousand barrels per…
(Click to enlarge) (Click to enlarge) The EIA released the latest edition of their Electric Power Monthly on May 25th, with data for March 2017.…
The EIA recently updated its International Petroleum statistics. World Crude plus Condensate (C+C) output was 80,577 kb/d in Feb 2017 an increase of 72 kb/d…
(Click to enlarge)The Chart above compares several different combinations of past (vintage) data to estimate output. The dotted line is based on the most recent…
(Click to enlarge) The IEA Oil Market Report was published in mid-April, data from the report can be found here. (CLick to enlarge)The EIA’s STEO…
The OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report is out with OPEC’s crude oil production numbers for March 2017. All data is through March 2017 and is…
The BP Statistical Review of World Energy has oil production data by country up to the end of 2015. This is what that looks like…
In a previous post on U.S. LTO future output there were suggestions that a bottom up approach might be better than the top down approach…
All data below is in thousand barrels per day and is through February 2017. (Click to enlarge)OPEC crude oil production dropped to 31,958,000 bpd in…
(Click to enlarge)The future output from the light tight oil (LTO) sector of the U.S. oil industry is the subject of much speculation. Above I…
North Dakota has published January production data for the Bakken and for all North Dakota. (Click to enlarge)Bakken production was up 37,617 bpd to 932,817…
North Dakota has released December production data for the Bakken and for all North Dakota. They were a little shocking.(Click to enlarge)Bakken production down 86,150…
The new January OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report is out with crude only production numbers for January 2017. All charts are in thousand barrels per…