Oil production in Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude exporter, rose to 9.923 million barrels a day in March, from 9.853 million barrels a day in February, overtaking Russia as the world's largest producer for the first time in six years, official data showed Sunday.
Oil production in
Saudi Arabia
, the
world's largest crude exporter, rose to 9.923 million barrels a day in March,
from 9.853 million barrels a day in February, overtaking
Russia
as
the world's largest producer for the first time in six years, official data
showed Sunday.
Russia
's output in March dropped to 9.920 million barrels a day, from 9.943
million barrels a day in February, according to figures posted on the Joint
Organization Data Initiative, or JODI, website. JODI is supervised by the
Riyadh-based International Energy Forum and shows data supplied directly by
governments dating back to 2002.
Saudi Arabia burnt 377,000 barrels a day in power stations and
water-desalination plants in March, up 45% from the 260,000 barrels a day used
during the same period in 2011, and 24% higher than February, signaling a rise
in demand for energy, which is needed to fuel electricity stations and
industrial complexes in the rapidly growing economy
The Arab world's largest economy exported 7.704 million barrels a day in March,
up from 7.485 million barrels in the month earlier, JODI said. No comparative
figures were given on
Russia
's exports or domestic consumption for the same period.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose members produce one in
three barrels consumed world-wide, has raised output by a combined 2.2 million
barrels a day over the past six months to soothe market fears that a July 1 ban
by the European Union of imports of Iranian crude could strain oil markets.
Saudi officials have previously said that the OPEC member's output is seen
continuing at current high levels amid recent efforts by some countries to
switch to crude from the kingdom ahead of stifling sanctions on Iran and its
exports later this year.
Saudi Arabia
's output rose dramatically in November to 10.047 million barrels a
day--the highest level in three decades--from 9.362 million barrels a day a
month earlier on higher demand from
Asia
. The kingdom's oil minister Ali al-Naimi said earlier this month that
the Gulf state is now pumping around 10 million barrels of crude a day and has
2.5 million barrels a day of spare capacity.
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