Environment & Energy

Last edited Sat Jul 27, 2024, 06:54 PM - Edit history (1)

or World oil production or world fossil fuel production.

You wrote about it here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3278917



I get that the U.S. has been the world's number one oil producer for the past 6 years, and these levels are higher than any country's in history. Gotit. I'm not sure why "alone" is italicized or even included.

And gas too as the excerpt says.

I even included a link to it in my comment to yesterday's LBN GDP report.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3278917

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Some research I did this morning. It is slow growth, but it is growth.

Global oil production from Statista.com
https://www.statista.com/statistics/265203/global-oil-production-in-barrels-per-day/
This morning it wasn't pay-walled. Today it is, sigh

When I Googled [World Oil production by year] and then clicked on the Statista link, it wasn't paywalled

It reached its then-all-time-high of 2019 (95.172 M barrels/day) , then dipped substantially in 2020 with the economic shutdowns), but grew again year by year and exceeded its 2019 peak in 2023 (96.376 M barrels/day, a 1.27% increase over 4 years, a 0.31%/year annualized increase).

I see similar with natural gas
Our world in data: 2018-2023: 38,453 39,640, 38,662, 40,437, 40,486, 40,592 TWH (a 2.40% increase over 2019)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gas-production-by-country?country=QAT~USA~RUS~CAN~GBR~OWID_WRL

And coal:
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-coal-production-2000-2025
It doesn't give world totals, so I'd have to add those 7 regions up year by year. It only goes to 2022. 2023 is predicted to be very slightly higher than 2022, and then to decline after that very slowly. I added 2019 up (7,959 MT) and 2023 predicted (8,365 MT), a 5.1% increase in 4 years.

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This one here is just the U.S., not the world total, but here it is:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
The bottom 4 bands are all fossil fuels. So, to see the combined total of fossil fuels, look at the top of the light pink band:.



It is interesting that the total U.S. fossil fuel production in BTUs (top of the light pink band) was essentially flat from 1970 to 2007, and then very sad that it went sharply up from there.

The wind and solar total is just 2.3% (it's less than half of the renewables green band).

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EDITED TO ADD 7/27 645p ET - I ran across the sibling graph to the above. The above is U.S. production. This one below is U.S. consumption.

As far as I know, the difference (quite a difference in trend!) is exports



At least on the consumption side, fossil fuel consumption in BTUs (top of the light pink band) has marginally declined from a 2007 peak. Though fossil fuels are still a huge 83% of all consumed energy.

The wind and solar total is just 2.6% (it's less than half of the renewables green band).