Energy Information Administration - Iraq Energy Profile

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 Iraq Energy Profile
   

Last Update: Feb. 17, 2009 (Petroleum)
Next Update: Mar. 17, 2009 (Petroleum), As available (Other fuels)

Data

 
2006
2007
 
28 year history
Iraq
Middle East
OPEC
World 
Rank
 
Iraq
Petroleum (Thousand Barrels per Day)            
Total Oil Production  2,010.36 25,212 34,742 84,543 15   2,096.50
Crude Oil Production  1,995.60
22,751
31,591
73,461
13
  2,086.29
Consumption  564.00
6,065
6,768 84,979
27
  F 596
Net Exports/Imports(-)  1,446.36
19,147
27,974 -- 12   F 1,501
Total Oil Exports to U.S.   553
2,260
NA 13,707 6   485
Refinery Capacity 
598
7,034
9,597 85,345
30
  598
Proved Reserves 
(Billion Barrels)
115.000
743
907  1,293
4
  115.000
   
2005
2006
 
27 year history
Iraq
Middle East
World
Rank
 
Iraq
Natural Gas (Billion Cubic Feet)  
Production  87 11,205 101,528
52
  106
Consumption  87 9,768 103,700
71
  106
Net Exports/Imports(-)  0 1,437   -- --   NA
Proved Reserves 
110,000 2,522,125   6,046,062
10
  111,950
Coal (Million Short Tons)  
Production  0 1   6,490
67
  NA
Consumption  0 17   6,483
111
  NA
Net Exports/Imports(-)  
(Trillion Btu)
0 -357   --
--
  0.000
Electricity (Billion Kilowatthours)  
Net Generation  31.99 607   17,351
59
  NA
Net Consumption  31.25 524   15,747
55
  NA
Installed Capacity (GWe)  3.800 124   3,872
76
  NA
Total Primary Energy (Quadrillion Btu)  
Production  4.108 65   460
23
  NA
Consumption  1.244 23   463
48
  NA
Energy Intensity  
(Btu per 2000 U.S. Dollars)
18,390 --   -- --   NA
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Million Metric Tons of CO₂)  
Total from Consumption of Fossil Fuels  98.13 1,460 28,193
40
  NA
Map of Iraq

Country Analysis Brief
  • Security issues continue to hold back rehabilitation of Iraq’s energy sector.
  • Experts agree that Iraq may be one of the few places left where vast reserves, known and unknown, have barely been exploited.
  • Iraq’s natural gas sector is believed to contain significant untapped resources which the GoI would like to develop for domestic consumption and export.
  • Rehabilitation of the electricity sector is a major component of the Iraq reconstruction efforts.

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 Related Information

International Petroleum Monthly

International Energy Annual

International Energy Outlook yearly energy projections through 2030

Short Term Energy Outlook monthly energy projections through 2009

Annual Energy Outlook yearly US energy projections through 2030


 

 
    -- = Not applicable; NA = Not available; F = Forecast value
 
Sources: EIA, International Energy Annual, Short Term Energy Outlook, Table 3a, Table 3b (Forecast values)

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