Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Data: From Country Output Series to the Wellbore Record · Head-to-head
EIA International Energy Statistics vs GOGET: National Statistics vs Asset-Level Tracking
Which oil & gas exploration & production data: from country output series to the wellbore record data fits your job: EIA International Energy Statistics, or Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
EIA International Energy Statistics
Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker (GOGET)
Where the fields line up
No shared field names. These two answer different questions.
| Field | EIA International Energy Statistics | Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker |
|---|---|---|
period | documented | not in this set |
value | documented | not in this set |
country geography facet | documented | not in this set |
product flow facet | documented | not in this set |
unit | documented | not in this set |
Unit ID | not in this set | documented |
Unit Name | not in this set | documented |
Fuel type | not in this set | documented |
Country/Area | not in this set | documented |
Subnational unit | not in this set | documented |
Production Type | not in this set | documented |
Status | not in this set | documented |
Coverage, side by side
| EIA International Energy Statistics | Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic | World - every producing nation plus regional, OPEC and EU aggregations; a verified research pull returned 218 countries and territories | 95 countries - 6,481 active extraction areas, 229 in development, 455 discoveries |
| Temporal | Multi-decade histories per series in annual, quarterly and monthly renditions | March 2026 release; discovery years reach the 19th century; ledger rows carry explicit data years (2023 in sampled rows) |
| Granularity | One observation per country per product-or-flow per period | Field-level unit (~7,673 records) plus aggregated project-level rows, each with parallel reserves and production ledgers |
What each contains
Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| EIA International Energy Statistics | Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker | |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | U.S. Energy Information Administration | Global Energy Monitor |
| Subject | Country-level international energy statistics: crude including lease condensate production, proved reserves, imports, exports, dry natural gas production | Asset-level census of oil and gas extraction areas worldwide, from discovery through development, production and decommissioning |
| Geographic coverage | World - every producing nation plus regional, OPEC and EU aggregations; a verified research pull returned 218 countries and territories | 95 countries - 6,481 active extraction areas, 229 in development, 455 discoveries |
| Unit of analysis | One observation per country per product-or-flow per period | Field-level unit (~7,673 records) plus aggregated project-level rows, each with parallel reserves and production ledgers |
| Temporal depth | Multi-decade histories per series in annual, quarterly and monthly renditions | March 2026 release; discovery years reach the 19th century; ledger rows carry explicit data years (2023 in sampled rows) |
| Company detail | None - stops at country facets | Operator, owner(s) with equity percentages, parents, government unit IDs |
| Spatial data | None | Latitude/longitude with exact-or-approximate accuracy flag, onshore/offshore, basin, block(s), field outlines in WKT |
| Lifecycle attributes | Not applicable - flows, not assets | Status enum plus discovery year, FID year and production start year |
| Reserves treatment | Proved reserves reported as a national series | Classification recorded (1P/2P/EUR and source classes such as 7F) with original and converted quantities |
| Best for | Country benchmarking, macro panels and trade screens on a revising clock | Ownership exposure, supply-queue dating, decline-side screening and spatial products |
What each does better
EIA International Energy Statistics
Coverage with no gaps in the map. Every producing nation the agency tracks, plus world, regional, OPEC and EU aggregations in one tree - 218 countries and territories returned in a single verified pull during research. GOGET spans 95 countries under an inclusion floor - units need at least 1 million boe/yr of production or 25 million boe of reserves - so small assets sit outside it while their national totals still appear in the statistics.
Depth of time. Multi-decade annual histories per series, with quarterly and monthly renditions where published - long format that makes country panels assembly work rather than parsing work. GOGET reaches back to nineteenth-century discovery years, but its reserves and production ledgers are snapshots stamped with a single data year, 2023 in the sampled rows.
Flows beyond extraction. Imports and exports ride beside production and proved reserves, and the same tree extends into electricity, coal, renewables, nuclear and total energy. When the question is trade balance or energy mix, the asset tracker has no rows to offer.
A benchmarking reference. These are compiled national figures harmonized to common units and revised over time - the numbers everything else gets reconciled against.
Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker
The company dimension the statistics never name. Operator plus owner(s) with equity percentages - 'China National Petroleum Corp [70%]' is a recorded example - alongside parent chains and government unit IDs. EIA's smallest unit is a country facet; no series anywhere in it answers who owns what.
A lifecycle, not just a level. Statuses spanning discovered, in development, operating, mothballed, decommissioned, abandoned, exploration and cancelled, paired with discovery, FID and production-start years. That converts 684 pre-production units into a dated supply queue and makes decline-side screening a group-by rather than an anecdote hunt.
Geometry you can map without geocoding. Coordinates with an exact-or-approximate accuracy flag, onshore/offshore designation, basin, blocks and field outlines in WKT. Nothing in a country-series table can draw a field.
Reserves stated the way engineers book them. Dedicated sheets record classification - 1P, 2P, EUR and house variants such as the 7F class on Norway's Lillefix - with original quantities preserved next to converted ones, so unit reconciliation happens upstream of your model instead of inside it.
Where they're equivalent
More than the zoom difference suggests:
- Both score 9 out of 10 in the catalog - the top tier recorded in this industry slice - and both records were verified during the August 2026 research pass.
- Both are global in ambition. Every producing nation plus aggregations on one side; 95 countries on the other, with a third of pre-production fields concentrated in five of them.
- Both publish a documented dictionary. Seven field roles on the statistical side, eighteen on the asset side, each carrying definitions and captured examples - so a scoping sample validates structure before commitment.
- Both aggregate somewhere. National compilation on one side; project-level sheets rolling several fields into one development on the other. Pick your grain deliberately either way.
The verdict
Verdict: sample both, pick by fit - the unit of analysis decides, and these two rarely compete for the same question.
Reach for EIA International Energy Statistics when the unit is a nation: benchmarking decks, macro panels, trade-balance screens, energy-mix context, any workflow where adding a market means adding a filter rather than a schema migration. Investors and quants building country features and consultants citing one number for every producer land here first.
Reach for Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker (GOGET) when the unit is an asset or a company: ownership exposure by parent before a credit review, FID-dated supply queues, stranded-asset and decommissioning screens, shale-versus-conventional splits, basin maps built from WKT outlines. Journalists naming fields and developers assembling spatial products start here.
Three quick tests settle most cases. Does the deliverable name companies? Only GOGET has them. Does it need this quarter's figure? Only the statistics revise on that clock. Does it need a polygon? Only the tracker draws one. When two answers point the same way, the choice has made itself - and when they split down the middle, that is what the combined feed is for.
Sample both, pick by fit. See EIA International Energy Statistics · See Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker
Or take both in one feed
Or take both in one feed. They stack naturally, because one supplies the stage and the other the actors on it. Build the bottom-up layer from GOGET - units, owners, statuses, reserves and production ledgers across 95 countries - aggregate its ledgers by Country/Area, then set EIA's national series beside the result and the reconciliation writes itself: which countries' official totals sit above the sum of their tracked fields, and how much of the gap the inclusion floor explains.
Two seams need care. Units: the statistics speak in thousand barrels per day and native reserve measures, the tracker ships original-plus-converted columns - align on the converted set before joining. Time: periodicity with revisions on one side, an explicit data year inside a named release vintage on the other - match on data year and cite the vintage you cut from, which Datadory preserves on every extract.
The division of labor holds over time: between tracker vintages the statistics carry the freshness load, and beneath every statistical revision the tracker holds the asset truth. One feed carrying both, normalized to each side's documented dictionary, is exactly the shape Datadory delivers.
API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Fair questions
Is EIA International Energy Statistics better than Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker (GOGET)?
Neither is universally better; they operate at different zoom levels. EIA International Energy Statistics wins the country argument: every producing nation plus OPEC and regional aggregates, multi-decade annual, quarterly and monthly series, revised on a statistical clock. GOGET wins the asset argument: about 7,673 field-level units across 95 countries with operators, ownership stakes, lifecycle statuses, reserves classifications and WKT outlines.
Do the two datasets cover the same ground?
Only at the country line. Both roll up to nations - EIA by design, GOGET through its Country/Area column across 95 countries - but EIA's smallest unit is a country facet while GOGET's largest useful unit is a single field or project. Below the national level only GOGET has rows; above it, small fields excluded by GOGET's floor still count in EIA's totals.
Which dataset updates more often?
EIA International Energy Statistics, on the face of it: multi-decade annual, quarterly and monthly renditions per series, with figures revised over time. GOGET ships in release vintages - March 2026 followed February 2025 - and stamps each row with its own data year instead. Datadory normalizes either cadence and delivers daily, weekly, or hourly - your call.
Does either dataset include oil and gas company ownership?
Only GOGET does. Field-level rows name the operator and list owners with equity percentages - 'China National Petroleum Corp [70%]' appears in the record - alongside parents and government unit IDs. EIA's international series stop at country facets and carry no company dimension, so corporate exposure work starts from the tracker.
Which fields can you join the two datasets on?
Country and time. Both key on geography and stamp time - country facets plus periods on the statistics side, Country/Area plus discovery, FID, production-start and data years on the tracker side. There is no common asset ID, so joins run through country names plus aggregation, with units aligned on GOGET's converted quantities before matching.
Can I get both EIA International Energy Statistics and GOGET from Datadory?
Yes - sample both and pick by fit, or take both in one feed. Datadory normalizes each to its documented dictionary - seven field roles on the statistics, eighteen on the tracker - attaches validation rows, preserves the vintage each extract was cut from, and ships them alongside the rest of the oil & gas exploration & production slice, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly.