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Last Updated: March 31, 2015
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OPEC (excluding Iran) net oil export revenues
For 2014, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that, excluding Iran, members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) earned about $730 billion in net oil export revenues (unadjusted for inflation). This represents an 11% decline from the $824 billion earned in 2013, largely because of the decline in average annual crude oil prices, and to a lesser extent from decreases in the amount of OPEC net oil exports. This was the lowest earnings for the group since 2010.
These net export earnings do not include Iran's revenues because of the difficulties associated with estimating Iran's earnings, including the country's inability to receive payments and possible price discounts Iran offers its existing customers. Saudi Arabia earned the largest share of these earnings, $246 billion in 2014, representing approximately one-third of total OPEC oil revenues.
For 2015, EIA projects that OPEC net oil export revenues (excluding Iran) could fall further to about $380 billion in 2015 (unadjusted for inflation) as a result of the much lower annual crude oil prices expected in 2015. EIA expects that OPEC's crude oil production and exports (as a whole) in 2015 will be unchanged from 2014 levels, following OPEC's decision on November 27 to not change its production targets from previous levels.
Consistent with OPEC's announcement, Saudi Arabia has indicated its intention to maintain its export market share rather than cut production to keep prices higher. In the past, Saudi Arabia often played the role of the swing producer, temporarily cutting its production to offset supply growth elsewhere or weaker global demand, or increasing its output level to make up for a supply shortfall. On a per capita basis, OPEC (excluding Iran) net oil export earnings are expected to decline by half from about out $2,186 in 2014 to $1,114 in 2015. OPEC net oil export revenues in 2015 are based on projections of global oil prices and OPEC production levels from EIA's March 2015 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).
For 2016, OPEC revenues are projected to rebound to $515 billion with the expected rebound in crude oil prices.
Methodology
For each country, EIA derived net oil exports based on its oil production and consumption estimates from the March 2015 edition of the STEO. For countries that export several different crude varieties, EIA assumes that the proportion of total net oil exports represented by each variety is equal to the proportion of the total domestic production represented by that variety.
For example, if Arab Medium represents 20% of total oil production in Saudi Arabia, it is assumed that Arab Medium also represents 20% of total net oil exports from Saudi Arabia. EIA assumes that these exports are then sold at prevailing spot prices. Projected revenues are then estimated using EIA's projections for oil prices from the STEO. These projections incorporate historical price differentials between spot prices for the different OPEC crude oil types and the benchmark crude oil prices that are projected in the STEO (Brent, West Texas Intermediate, and the average imported refiner crude oil acquisition cost).
| Nominal (billion $) | Real (billion 2014$) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | Jan-Feb 2015 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | Jan-Feb 2015 |
| Algeria | $55 | $48 | - - | - - | $4 | $56 | $48 | - - | $4 | |
| Angola | $27 | $24 | - - | - - | $2 | $27 | $24 | - - | $2 | |
| Ecuador | $10 | $10 | - - | - - | $1 | $10 | $10 | - - | $1 | |
| Iran | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | |
| Iraq | $87 | $87 | - - | - - | $7 | $88 | $87 | - - | $7 | |
| Kuwait | $90 | $81 | - - | - - | $7 | $91 | $81 | - - | $7 | |
| Libya | $29 | $9 | - - | - - | $0 | $29 | $ | - - | $0 | |
| Nigeria | $82 | $77 | - - | - - | $6 | $84 | $77 | - - | $6 | |
| Qatar | $42 | $38 | - - | - - | $3 | $42 | $38 | - - | $3 | |
| Saudi Arabia | $278 | $246 | - - | - - | $19 | $282 | $246 | - - | $19 | |
| UAE | $57 | $53 | - - | - - | $4 | $58 | $53 | - - | $4 | |
| Venezuela | $67 | $58 | - - | - - | $5 | $68 | $58 | - - | $5 | |
| OPEC | $824 | $730 | $380 | $515 | $58 | $837 | $730 | $380 | $501 | $58 |
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| Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, derived from EIA's March 2015 Short-Term Energy Outlook. | ||||||||||
| Nominal ($) | Real (2014$) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | Jan-Feb 2015 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | Jan-Feb 2015 |
| Algeria | $1,541 | $1,326 | - - | - - | $98 | $1,565 | $1,326 | - - | $98 | |
| Angola | $1,933 | $1,674 | - - | - - | $136 | $1,964 | $1,674 | - - | $136 | |
| Ecuador | $656 | $693 | - - | - - | $57 | $666 | $693 | - - | $56 | |
| Iran | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | |
| Iraq | $2,727 | $2,682 | - - | - - | $217 | $2,771 | $2,682 | - - | $217 | |
| Kuwait | $29,061 | $25,362 | - - | - - | $2,037 | $29,529 | $25,362 | - - | $2,035 | |
| Libya | $4,248 | $1,250 | - - | - - | $47 | $4,317 | $1,250 | - - | $47 | |
| Nigeria | $529 | $483 | - - | - - | $39 | $538 | $483 | - - | $39 | |
| Qatar | $40,770 | $36,013 | - - | - - | $2,768 | $41,427 | $36,013 | - - | $2,765 | |
| Saudi Arabia | $9,053 | $7,900 | - - | - - | $621 | $9,199 | $7,900 | - - | $620 | |
| UAE | $10,442 | $9,435 | - - | - - | $732 | $10,610 | $9,435 | - - | $731 | |
| Venezuela | $2,366 | $2,016 | - - | - - | $165 | $2,404 | $2,016 | - - | $165 | |
| OPEC | $2,514 | $2,186 | $1,114 | $1,481 | $172 | $2,554 | $2,186 | $1,113 | $1,439 | $172 |
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| Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration derived from EIA's March 2015 Short-Term Energy Outlook. | ||||||||||
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06/09/2015 - District of Columbia, United States
Why can't I download any of this to spreadsheets? Why can't I download multiple years?
06/01/2015 - Nigeria
Dear Sirs, I have been using your data for almost 20 yrs, in particular the international Petroleum data. I like the granularity provided, by country by month. Unfortunately it seems from the beta site, that I can only access the annual data and only download as a CSV file. Is that correct? regards Casper
05/31/2015 - Virginia, United States
Where are the country pages!!!? I am writing a book chapter and referenced your site, where I found terrific info on India and Japan several months ago. Unfortunately, it appears you deleted those pages. Why?
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I need to access country profiles in .pdf form.
05/20/2015 - New York, United States
Thank you for all the info and help over the past few years. Before the layout, I was able to find annual #s of net exports of petro for each country, and now I have no idea where it is.
05/20/2015 - New York, United States
I am looking for bbl and bcf , not Btu , can you tell me where to look for country's oil bbl and gas in bcf? Thanks
05/20/2015 - Canada
Where can I find the original spreadsheets with the country data for Crude + Condensate and the one for all liquids. The new look is too complicated for me. The spreadsheet is more easily used for good analysis.
05/19/2015 - Texas, United States
Would like a link to the pdf of the entire country analysis brief.
05/18/2015 - Canada
The data titles are incorrect almost everywhere. Canada only produces 5.1 Bcf/d of natgas? More like export volume, not gross production.