barrels per day

BP's Deepwater Horizon well had been leaking up to 60, 000 barrels per day 5, 000 feet below the surface.

Until exports were possible, producers were limited to supplying the Kurdish market which consumes only a few thousand barrels per day.

Barclays Capital estimates that so far about one million barrels per day of production has been shut down.

"We see 6 million barrels per day of surplus capacity over the coming years, " Eagles said at a conference call this week.

Any such move would add to the cumulative cuts of 4. 2m barrels per day that Opec has instituted in two rounds since September.

One reason for what OPEC estimates is a drop in oil output of around 1m barrels per day over the past decade is the politicisation of PDVSA.

The balance of demand and supply is tight with daily demand of roughly 86 million barrels per day, almost the same level as daily supply.

The 600, 000-barrels-per-day pipeline is estimated to cost over $14 billion and it needs to be finished by the end of next year.

He won the backing of only three of Opec's 12 members for a proposal to add 1. 5m barrels per day to the club's output.

Any rise in quotas is expected to be in the range of 1m to 1. 5m barrels per day.

A pipeline from Iraq's Kirkuk oilfield to Turkey's Ceyhan port has pumped about 300, 000 barrels per day since late August.

The world currently consumes about 86 million barrels per day of petroleum and other liquid fuels, including biofuels.

To OPEC, though, which slashed its output quota by 2. 2 million barrels per day Wednesday, it's a mountain to climb.

India consumes 3 million barrels per day, two-thirds of them imported.

OPEC produces 40 percent of the world's oil. Its current output stands at about 32 million barrels per day.

The Venezuelan leader said exports to China would more than treble to 1m barrels per day by 2012.

BP owns 65% of the Macondo well that is spilling up to 60, 000 barrels per day, according to government estimates.

Before secession, the combined oil production in the former Sudan was about 500, 000 barrels per day (bpd).

Libya has taken 1. 25 m barrels per day off the market.

The project will expand the existing refinery at Quanzhou, Fujian Province, from 80, 000 barrels per day to 240, 000 barrels per day.

But Yemeni production is currently headed south -- from more than 400, 000 barrels per day in 2003 to less than 300, 000 in 2009.

It forecast world oil consumption next year would reach 85. 2m barrels per day, up from 83. 8m this year.

There are many catalytic cracking plants worldwide with capacities ranging from 5, 000 to 55, 000 barrels per day.

Sinopec had earlier agreed to import 150, 000-160, 000 barrels per day (bpd) of Iranian crude this year, unchanged from 2008.

Output in the first three months fell 1 per cent to 9. 76m barrels per day.

Violence has cut oil production to 1. 7 million barrels per day today from 2. 6 million in 2005.

The prediction for this year remains at a fall of 2. 9%, or 2. 5m barrels per day from last year.

Recoverable 1 million barrels per day BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill;

barrels per day of oil equivalent

Mbdoe millions of barrels per day oil equivalent