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By 1993, internal demand for oil exceeded domestic production, and China became a net oil importer. [10] China became dependent on imported oil for the first time in its history in 1993 due to demand rising faster than domestic production. [4] In 2006, it imported 145 million tons of crude oil, accounting for 47% of its total oil consumption.
A map of world oil production (2013) Oil-producing countries (information from 2006 to 2012) This article includes a chart representing proven reserves, production, consumption, exports and imports of oil by country.
Trends in the top five crude oil-importing countries, 1960–2012. This is a list of countries by oil imports based on The World Factbook and other sources. [1] Many countries also export oil, and some export more oil than they import.
(The data below does not seem to include shale oil and other unconventional sources of oil such as tar sands. For instance, North America has over 3 trillion barrels of shale oil reserves, [ citation needed ] and the majority of oil produced in the US is from shale, leading to the paradoxical data below that the US will finish all its oil at ...
Imports fell 3.9% from a year earlier, reflecting weak demand from industries and consumers. With exports outpacing imports, China’s trade surplus rose to $97.4 billion. ... With exports ...
Source: EIA. 2. Imports from world regions Many politicians tout "North American" energy independence as an achievable goal in the coming years, and the chart below indicates why.
The excess is largely being driven by a weakening economy in China. Demand for oil in the world's second-largest economy contracted for six straight months in a row as of September, IEA data shows ...
Daily oil consumption by region from 1980 to 2006. This is a list of countries by oil consumption. [1] [2] In 2022, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that the total worldwide oil consumption would rise by 2% [3] year over year compared to 2021 despite the COVID-19 pandemic. [citation needed]