Production

In petroleum industry parlance, production refers to the quantity of crude extracted from reserves, not the literal creation of the product.

No.	Producing Nation	103bbl/d (2006)	103bbl/d (2007)	103bbl/d (2008)
1	Saudi Arabia (OPEC)	10,665	10,234	10,782
2	Russia 1	9,677	9,876	9,789
3	United States 1	8,331	8,481	8,514
4	Iran (OPEC)	4,148	4,043	4,174
5	China	3,845	3,901	3,973
6	Canada 2	3,288	3,358	3,350
7	Mexico 1	3,707	3,501	3,185
8	United Arab Emirates (OPEC)	2,945	2,948	3,046
9	Kuwait (OPEC)	2,675	2,613	2,742
10	Venezuela (OPEC) 1	2,803	2,667	2,643
11	Norway 1	2,786	2,565	2,466
12	Brazil	2,166	2,279	2,401
13	Iraq (OPEC) 3	2,008	2,094	2,385
14	Algeria (OPEC)	2,122	2,173	2,179
15	Nigeria (OPEC)	2,443	2,352	2,169
16	Angola (OPEC)	1,435	1,769	2,014
17	Libya (OPEC)	1,809	1,845	1,875
18	United Kingdom	1,689	1,690	1,584
19	Kazakhstan	1,388	1,445	1,429
20	Qatar (OPEC)	1,141	1,136	1,207
21	Indonesia	1,102	1,044	1,051
22	India	854	881	884
23	Azerbaijan	648	850	875
24	Argentina	802	791	792
25	Oman	743	714	761
26	Malaysia	729	703	727
27	Egypt	667	664	631
28	Colombia	544	543	601
29	Australia	552	595	586
30	Ecuador (OPEC)	536	512	505
31	Sudan	380	466	480
32	Syria	449	446	426
33	Equatorial Guinea	386	400	359
34	Thailand	334	349	361
35	Vietnam	362	352	314
36	Yemen	377	361	300
37	Denmark	344	314	289
38	Gabon	237	244	248
39	South Africa	204	199	195
40	Turkmenistan	No data	180	189